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Yours for fun, 
MRS. HERBERT V. LINSCOTT 



ONE HUNDRED 
BRIGHT IDEAS 

(Second Edition) 

For Social Entertainment 

ADAPTED TO 

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And all other similar organizations 



AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR THE HOME 

BY 

MRS, HERBERT B. LINSCOTT 

CLEVELAND, OHIO 



THE LIBRARY OF 

CONGRESS, 
Two Cop.es Received 

DEC, 22' 1902 

Copyright entry 

CLASS «-^XX«. No. 

COPY A. 






[Copykighted 1902. All Eights Keserved.] 



This book needs no^praise, 
it needs no apology, 
it speaks for itself. 

The Author. 



PRESS OF A. J. WATT, CLEVELAND 



To my kind husband and loving 
daughter, Helen, this book is 
lovingly dedicated. 

Mrs. Linscott. 



"BOQUET" 

I read your book while at my leisure, 

Permit me to say, it gives me great pleasure, 

The products sweet of brain and thought, 

At such small price, should ne'er be bought. 

Within its pages, one will find 

Good words that but refresh the mind, 

Uplifting in its social measure, 

Which makes your work a household treasure. 

Respectfully, 

H. R. Robinson. 



APPLE SOCIAL. 



Cards are sent out with the following: 

Come to the Apple Social and see who gets the 

B— A— P 
L— A— P 
N— A— P 

Social given under the auspices of the 

East End Connett Y. W. C. T. U., 

Monday evening, Sept. 10, 1900. 

Have cards printed with a letter on each one, forming the 
name of an apple, for instance G-R-E-E-N-I-N-G. Have as 
many letters made as there are letters in the word Greening, 
and have each group of letters a separate color. These are 
passed to the guests, after which each one proceeds to find the 
rest of the colored letters like the color he holds, and when the 
group is complete, they proceed to spell out the name of their 
apple. Each group then composes an original poem on their 
apple. Poems are then read to the audience, then the prize 
of B — A — P (big apple pie) is given to the best poem, 
L — A — P (little apple pie) to the poorest, and N — A — P (no 
apple pie) to the group who compose no poem. All kinds of 
apples are served for refreshments. 



APPLE EATING CONTEST. 



Much fun is caused by having an apple suspended from 
the ceiling on a string, and have each one try to eat it with 
their hands tied behind their backs. Or have three apples and 
let three different ones have an apple eating contest. The 
one eating his apple first could be given some nice apples for 
his brave efforts. 

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APPLE-PEARING CONTEST. 



Next, knives are distributed, and each one attempts to slide 
his or her knife safely round and round an apple taken from 
the basket without breaking the paring. This being ac- 
complished, each one privately gives to his or her paring the 
name of a favored one, stands in the middle of the room, takes 
the paring by one end, twirls it three times around the head 
from right to left, and drops it over the left shoulder to the 
floor, repeating: 

"I pare this pippin round and round again, 
My sweetheart's name to flourish in the plain; 
I fling the unbroken paring o'er my head, 
My sweetheart's letter on the ground is read." 

The paring is supposed to immediately assume the form of 
the first initial of the favored one's name. Again, an apple 
seed is cut in halves, each half named, and stuck upon the 
closed eyelids. It is rarely that either one remains on long. 
If both drop at the same time then it is reasonable to suppose 
that the experimenter will go unloved to his or her grave. 
Should one, however, remain longer than the other, that one 
will prove constant through life. 



APRIL FOOL'S EVENING. 



Miss Blank: 

The pleasure of your company is requested at an informal 
April Fool's party, from eight until twelve, April first. Please 
wear sheet and pillowcase dress. 

Yours very sincerely, 

B . 

The designs of sheet and pillow case dresses are endless, 
and the whole effect is rather pretty and ghostlike as the 
guests assemble in the parlor ready for the fun. The host and 
hostess should be similarly clad, but to distinguish them, they 
might have tiny bells sewed to their disguise that "they may 



make music wherever they go." Red jesters' caps generously 
supplied with bells are a good addition and make attractive 
souvenirs for the guests to take home. These may or may not 
be supplied to the guests in the dressing room. It is a little 
additional trouble in preparation of the evening. 

When all are assembled the April Fools' dance begins. All 
the ghostlike figures range themselves in line. One person at 
a time steps out of the rank, whispers his or her name to the 
hostess, who with paper and pencil in hand is to be score 
keeper, and she writes down his guesswork. He is to guess 
without touching the figures who each person' is, saying the 
guess out loud that all may hear. If the guess is right the 
ghostlike personator guessed keeps silent — if the guesser 
makes a mistake the figure before him calls out "April 
Fool," the score keeper, as I said, keeping track of the num- 
ber of times he is fooled. At the end of the line being reached, 
a gay waltz strikes up from the piano. The sheeted figures 
seize each other as partners until the music suddenly ceaaes 
once more and the "ghosts" line up for another guesser. This 
does away with any advantage the last guesser might have 
over the first in being April Fooled. And so the merriment 
waxes loud until all have guessed and the hostess orders the 
masks removed and announces the name of the guesser who 
was April Fooled the least. A prize should be given to the 
most successful. This game is new and is great fun, as can 
be imagined. 



AN EVENING WITH THE AUTHORS. 



Questions to be answered by giving to each the name of a 
well-known author: 

1. A name that means such fiery things, you can't describe 
their pains and stings? (Burns.) 

2. What a rough man said to his son, when he wished him 
to eat properly? (Chaucer.) 

3. Pilgrims and flatterers have knelt low to kiss him? 
(Pope.) 

4. Makes and mends for first-class customers? (Taylor.) 

5. Represents the dwellings of civilized men? (Holmes.) 

6. Is worn on the head? (Hood.) 

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7 A chain of hills covering a dark treasure? (Coleridge.) 

8. A brighter and smarter than the other? (Whittier.) 

9. A worker. in precious metals? (Goldsmith.) 

10. A vital "part of the body? (Hart.) 

11. A disagreeable fellow to have on one's foot? (Bun- 
van.) 

12. Meat, what are you doing? (Browning.) 



AUTHOR'S GUESSING GAME. 



1. When we leave here we go to seek our what? (Author 
of "Elsie Venner.") 
.2. What dies only with life? (Author of "Phroso.") 

3. What does a maid's heart crave? (Author of "Handy 
Andy.") 

4. What does an angry person often raise? (Author of 
"The Christian.") 

5. What should all literary people do? (Author of "Put 
Yourself in His Place.") 

6. If a young man would win, what nfust he do ? (Author 
of "Wandering Jew.") 

7. How do we dislike to grow? (Authors of "Silence of 
Dean Maitland" and "Dawn.") 

8. What would we prefer to be? (Authors of "Book of 
Golden Deeds," "Man Without a Country," and "Under the 
Greenwood Tree.") 

9. What is a suitable adjective for the national library 
building? (Author of "The Heavenly Twins.") 

10. What would we consider the person who answers cor- 
rectly all these questions? (Author of "From Post to Fin- 
ish.") 

The answers to the above questions are : 

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Holmes.) 

2. Anthony Hope. (Hope.) 

3. Samuel Lover. (Lover.) 

4. Hall Caine. (Cain.) 

5. Charles Reade. (Read.) 

6. Eugene Sue. (Sue.) 

7. Maxwell Grey and Rider Haggard. (Gray and hag- 
gard.) 

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8. Charlotte Yonge, E. E. Hale, Thomas Hardy. (Young, 
hale and hardy.) 

9. Sarah Grande. (Grand.) 

10. Hawley Smart. (Smart.) 

Give the most successful contestant a nicely bound copy 
of the latest popular "book, and the least one a gaily colored 
copy of a child's primer, or a gaudy poster picture. 



AUTHOR'S VERBAL GAME. 



Is an interesting and instructive game. The players seat 
themselves so as to form a ring. An umpire and a score- 
keeper are appointed, and each player in turn rises and an- 
nounces the name of a well-known book. The one who first 
calls out the name of the author of the book scores a point; 
the one who has the largest score when the game ceas<*s is 
the victor; and may be given a prize. This game may be 
varied by the naming of well-known authors, leaving the titles 
of books, by these authors, to be supplied. And it may be 
played in yet another way. Give each player a pencil and 
paper, and instead of calling aloud the title of a book, as each 
author is announced, ask the player to write on a slip of 
paper the name of a character in a book, the name of the 
author and the title of a book by that author. Thus : 

1 — Miss Hardcastle. Oliver Goldsmith — "She Stoops to 
Conquer." 

2 — Miss Ophelia. Harriet Beecher Stowe — "Uncle Tom's 
Cabin." 

3 — Tybalt. William Shakespeare — "Romeo and Juliet." 

If the game be played in this way the scores will probably 
be close. 



AMATEUR GYPSY FORTUNE TELLING. 



Added to the charm and mystery of having one's fortune 
told is the great pleasure which may be derived from having it 
told by a Gypsy, even though she may be an amateur. 

An hour of amusement may be passed very delightfully in 
this way, provided the hostess can make the necessary ar- 
rangements with some quick-witted, bright young girl, who 
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will be willing to take the part of the Gypsy. Several days 
before the evening's entertainment the hostess should give her 
friend a list of the expected guests, with a few notes concern- 
ing their traits of character, environment, etc., and these sug- 
gestions, in addition to the knowledge of the persons which 
she possesses, and her own inventiveness, will give her an ex- 
cellent opportunity to apparently look back in the past, and 
forward to the future — especially if she happen to discover 
that any engaged couples are to be present. The Gypsy should 
arrive at the house of the hostess a little early on the evening 
of the entertainment, and be shown to an upstairs room to don 
her Gypsy attire. She should then descend to the dimly- 
lighted parlor and seat herself in readiness for the guests when 
they shall arrive. 

As the guests arrive and remove their wraps they should 
be received and greeted in the library or reception-room, and 
the hostess then announce that a Gypsy is in the parlor. 
Having learned in some way that there was to be a large party 
there, she has begged the privilege of coming in to tell for- 
tunes for the pretty ladies, so that she might earn a few pen- 
nies. The guests repair to the dimly-lighted parlor, where 
the Gypsy is seated. As each guest advances the Gypsy takes 
the hand and reads the lines — improvising as she does so in 
broken English. 



ACTING PROVERBS. 



In this game the company may be divided into actors and 
spectators. The actors are each given a proverb, which they 
are to act alone in pantomime. ( 

The first player may come into the room where the specta- 
tors are waiting, with a sprinkler in one hand and a cup in the 
other. He begins sprinkling the flowers, then he pours water 
over them, acting the proverb, "It never rains but it pours." 

The second actor also brings a cup of water. He repeatedly 
attempts to drink from the cup, which keeps slipping from his 
fingers as he brings it near his mouth. "There's many a slip 
between the cup and the lip." 

The third brings in a purse containing brass buttons, which 
he takes out and counts over deliberately. Then he looks at 
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them closely, and with seeming distrust, finally flinging them 
from him in a rage. Motto : "All is not gold that glitters." 

The fourth actor appears with a stone, which he rolls all 
about the room. Then he examines it critically and shakes his 
head dubiously. "A rolling stone gathers no moss." 

The next actor brings in a bundle of hay and tosses it about 
with his fork, which he carries for the purpose, looking up fre- 
quently at an imaginary sky. "Make hay while the sun 
shines." 

This game is more interesting if spectators are furnished 
with slips of paper and pencils, that they may write down their 
guessing of each proverb when the actor passes from the room, 
to be followed by another. 



ACTING CHARADES. 



A word must be chosen of two, three, four or even five 
syllables, or a whole sentence can be used. Here is a list of 
words and sentences to be used: 

1. Misunderstand. (Miss-under-stand.) jt 

2. Mistake. (Miss-take.) 

3. Friendship. (Friend-ship.) 

4. Champagne. (Sham-pain.) 

5. Sweetheart. (Sweet-heart.) 

6. Courtship. (Court-ship.) 

7. Golden. (Gold-den.) 

8. Handsome. (Hand-some.) 

9. Windowshade. (Window-shade.) 

10. Phantom. (Fan-Tom.) 

11. Isinglass. (Eyes-in-glass.) 



ADVERTISEMENT ITEMS. 



Cut out pictures of ads, for instance take "Quaker Oats," 
cut out the Quaker, but nothing that will tell what it repre- 
sents. Have a number of them and paste on plain white paper. 
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Number each ad. and keep a "key" to them yourself. Fur- 
nish paper and pencil to each guest and have them guess what 
each ad represents. The oiie who guesses the most receives 
prize. Also request every one to write an advertisement on 
some article. 

Still another form of the game is for each person to choose 
his theme for an advertisement, and write it without naming 
the article. He will read his advertisement, and the com- 
pany must guess what article he is advertising. A variation 
of this game is to distribute papers, allowing a few minutes 
for examining them, and then let each player describe some 
article as near as possible in the language of its printed adver- 
tisement with of course such changes as will serve to divert 
the company, and give the rest an opportunity to guess what 
advertisement he has been reading. Of course the article 
should not be named in the course of the description. 



BIRTHDAY PARTY. 



We herewith extend a most kind invitation. 
To you and your friends or any relation. 
To come to a party. This little silk sack 
Is intended to furnish a place to pack 
As many pennies as you are years old. 
We promise the secret shall never be told. 
If Methuselah's age would be the sum 
Of the years to which you now have come, 
If objections to exposing your age arise, 
One hundred would be a complete disguise. 
A musical program of very rare merit 
Will be given to those who will just come and hear it. 
We'll give you good cheer for the inner man 
And a gallery of pictures unique to scan; 
We'll meet young and old with greetings most hearty 
As you come one and all, to your own Birthday Party. 

These invitations can be given and sent out beforehand. 
Prepare a nice musical treat and something good to eat. Have 
each member of the society bring a picture of themselves when 
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they were babies or small children, and have a picture gallery. 
Do not forget to be very social and make every one feel they 
are welcome, not only for the money they bring, but for them- 
selves alone. 



BIRTHDAY STONES. 



JANUARY. 

By her who in this month is born, 
No gem save garnets should be worn, 
They will insure her constancy, 
True friendship and fidelity. 

FEBRUARY. 

The February-born will find 
Sincerity and peace of mind, 
Freedom from passion and from care, 
If they the amethist will wear. 

MARCH. 

Who in this world of ours their eyes 
In March first open shall be wise, 
In days of peril, firm and brave, 
And wear a bloodstone to their grave. 

APRIL. 

She who from April dates her years, 
Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears 
For vain repentance flow ; this stone 
Emblems of innocence is known. 

MAY. 

Who first beholds the light of day 
In spring's sweet flowery month of May, 
And wears an emerald all her life, 
Shall be a loved and happy wife. 
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JUNE. 

Who came with summer to this earth, 

And owes June her day of birth, 

With ring of agate on her hand, 

Can health, wealth and long life command. 

JULY. 

The glowing ruby should adorn 
Those who in warm July are born; 
Then will they be exempt and free 
From love's doubts and anxiety. 



Wear a sardonyx, or for thee 
No conjugal felicity. 
The August-born, without this stone, 
'Tis said, must live unloved and alone. 

SEPTEMBER. 

A maiden born when autumn leaves 
Are rustling in September's breeze, 
A sapphire on her brow should bind — 
'Twill cure diseases of the mind. 



October's child is born for woe, 
And life's vicissitude's must know; 
But lay an opal on her breast, 
And Hope will lull those woes to rest. 

NOVEMBER. 

Who first comes to this world below, 
With drear Novembers fog and snow, 
Should prize the topaz, amber hue — 
Emblem of friends and lovers true. 

DECEMBER. 

If cold December gave you birth — 
The month of snow and ice and mirth- 
Place on your hand a turquoise blue ; 
Success will bless whate'er you do. 
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BARN PARTY. 



Miss Gertrude S. Derr 

requests the pleasure of your company 

at a Barn Party, 

Monday eve., August 12, 1902, 

on Water Road, 

Shortsville, New York. 

ARRANGING FOR THE PARTY. 

To insure the success of such a party a moonlight night 
should be selected. The barn chosen should be large, the floor 
space ample and the decorations lavish. They may consist of 
green boughs, vines and goldenrod, and a number of American 
flags. 

The two large opposite doors should be thrown wide open 
for free circulation of air. The floor should then be cleared, 
swept and washed. High up over one door a large flag may 
be draped, and wires stretched across from beam to beam, 
away from direct draughts, upon which Japanese lanterns 
may be hung, care being taken that none are allowed to 
come in contact with the bunting in case of c;ie "taking fire. 
Chairs should also be provided, and a rope stretched across 
one side of the open space, on the farther side of which 
place a table. On this table place a large bowl of soap- 
suds, into which a spoonful of glycerine has been put, and by 
its side place half as many pipes as there are to be guests, 
Prepare half as many cards also as there are to be guests, 
and write across the full length of each card the name of an 
agricultural implement, as a hay-rake, hay-cutter, pitchfork, 
hoe, spade, scythe, sickle, mower, plow, reaper, binder, seeder. 
Each card should be numbered at the top, with a question 
concerning the implement named on it, besides the number 
and a query concerning it written at the back upon the lower 
half. Questions like the following will answer : 

No. 1. What is the true mission of a harrow? 

No. 2. Can you tell a harrowing tale ? 

No. 3. What is a hoe used for? 

No. 4. What is a good receipt for hoe cake? 

The cards should then be cut in halves. 
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BISHOP'S RIDDLE. 



A most eccentric yet interesting man was Bishop Brooks 
of Brookville; although not a large or strong man, where'er 
he went, night or day, he was always either accompanied by 
or carrying: 

Two playful animals — (calves) 

A number of small animals of a less tame breed — (hares) 
hairs. 

A member of the deer family — (hart) heart. 

A number of whips without handles — (lashes) eye-lashes. 

Same weapons of warfare — arms. 

The steps of a hotel — (inn steps) insteps. 

The House of Commons on eve of disunion — (ayes and 
noes) eyes and noes. 

Some Spanish grandees to wait upon him — (ten dons) ten- 
dons. 

Two places of worship — temples. 

Two scholars — pupils. 

What Napoleon wished to leave his son — crown. 

Two lids — eye-lids. 

Two musical instruments — drums. 

Two established measures — feet and hands. 

Two caps — knee-caps. 

Several articles that a carpenter can not do without — nails. 

A couple of fish — soles. 

A number of shell-fish — muscles. 

Two lofty trees — palms. 

Two kinds of flowers — tulips and iris. 



'B" SOCIAL. 



Be sure and come to the home of 
rother Linscott next Monday eve, 
ecause we will insure you a good time, 
y the East End Connet Y. W. C. T. U. 

Busy Bees 
Busy Bee's bill o' fare: Baked potatoes. 

Bread. Bologna. 

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Butter. Boiled pudding. 

Baked beans. Bananas. 

Beets. Boston's overthrow. 

Beef. Brown bread. 
Batter cake. 

This can be changed for any other letter and the invita- 
tions to read as you wish. Have tiny boxes, barrels, bags, and 
baskets for sale filled either with candy, fruit or nuts, or any 
small article for souvenirs. A price can be added after each 
article of food if you wish. 



BOX PARTY. 



A box party can be made very enjoyable if every one enters 
into the contest. 

Each lady should pack a box with lunch' for two and at the 
party they can be auctioneered off to the highest bidder. 

Or if there is any objection to that, the ladies' names can be 
placed on slips of paper and put in a hat and passed to the 
gentlemen, and the one they draw is the one they can eat 
refreshments with. 

If this party is to make money for some society the wisest 
way will be to sell the boxes. 



BEAN SOCIAL. 



Have you ever "bean" to a "bean" social? If not come to 
the one the Connett Y. are having Monday eve., Sept. ist. If 
you have never "bean" to one you will enjoy the 
"Bean porridge hot, 
Bean porridge cold, 
Bean porridge in the pot, 
Nine days old." 

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Supper could consist of baked beans, cold and hot, bean 
porridge or soup, brown bread and butter, and pickles, tea 
and gingerbread. 

Bean Bags to go with this social. 



BEAN BAGS. 



Make twelve or fifteen bags six inches square, of bed- 
ticking, and loosely fill them with beans which have been 
washed and dried to remove all dust. 

Appoint two leaders, who choose sides, arranging the sides 
in lines facing each other, with a small table at each end of 
each line. 

The bean bags being equally divided, each leader deposits 
his share upon the table nearest him. Then, at a given signal, 
seizing one bag at a time with one hand, with the other he 
starts them down the line, each player passing it to the next 
until they reach the last, who drops them upon the table. 
When all the bags have reached this table, the last player, 
seizing each in turn, sends them back up the line to the leader, 
who drops them upon his table. Whichever side first suc- 
ceeds in passing all the bags down the line and back, wins the 
round. It takes five rounds to make a game, and must all 
three out of five being successful. 



BIBLE EVENING. 



BIBLE TEST. 



Here is a well-known alphabet of Scripture proper names, 
which may be utilized at a social by ranking the members on 
two sides, and reading these lines one at a time, in the same 
way that a spelling-bee is carried on: — 
A was a monarch who reigned in the East; (Esth. i :i.) 
B was a Chaldee who made a great feast; (Dan. 5:1-4.) 
C was veracious, when others told lies; (Num. 13:30-33.) 
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D was a woman heroic and wise; (Judg. 4:4-14.) 

E was a refuge, where David spared Saul; (1 Sam. 34-1-7.) 

F was a Roman, accuser of Paul; (Acts 26:24.) 

G was a garden, a favorite resort; (John 18:1, 2; Matt. 26:36.) 

H was a city where David held court; (2 Sam. 2:11.) 

I was a mocker, a very bad boy; (Gen. 16:16.) 

J Was a city, preferred as a joy; (Ps. 137:6.) 

K was a father, whose son was quite tall; (I Sam. 9:1, 2.) 

L was a proud one, who had a great fall; (Isa. 14:12.) 

M was a nephew, whose uncle was good; (Col. 4:10; Acts 

11:24.) 
N was a city, long hid where it stood; (Zeph. 2:13.) 
O was a servant, acknowledged a brother; (Philem. 16.) 
P was a Christian greeting another; (2 Tim. 1:1, 2.) 
R was a damsel, who knew a man's voice; (Acts 12:13, 14.) 
S was a sovereign who made a bad choice; (1 Kings 11 :4-n.) 
T was a seaport, where preaching was long; (Acts 20:6, 7.) 
U was a teamster, struck dead for his wrong; (2 Sam. 6:7.) 
V was a cast-off, and never restored; (Esth. 1:19.) 
Z was a ruin with sorrow deplored. (Ps. 137:1.) 



BIBLE NAMES. 



Choose sides as in a spelling match, and let the leader of the 
first side give the first syllable of the name of some Bible char- 
acter. The leader of the opposite side will then complete the 
name, if he can. Failing this, his side loses a member, selected 
by the leader of the opposite side. And so the contest goes on 
down the line, first one side and then the other proposing the 
first syllable of some name. 



BIBLE CONTEST. 



A good way to promote study of the Bible is a "Bible ora- 
torical contest," in which four or five contestants recite, or give 
as readings, selections from the Bible. If well done, it will 
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be the talk of the town, and many people will go home sur- 
prised that the Bible is such an interesting book. 

The game of Bible cards can be played very profitably and 
are very instructive. They can be found in any book store in 
large cities or can be had of the United Society of Christian 
Endeavor, Boston, Mass. The cost is not very much. 



BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 



In Genesis the world was made by God's creative hand, 
In Exodus the Hebrews marched to gain the promised land. 
Leviticus contains the law holy and just and good. 
Numbers records the tribes enrolled, all sons of Abraham's 

blood. 
Moses in Deuteronomy records God's mighty deeds. 
Brave Joshua into Canaan's land the host of Israel leads. 
In Judges their rebellion oft provokes the Lord to smite, 
But Ruth records the faith of one well pleasing in His sight. 
In First and Second Samuel of Jesse's son we read. 
Ten tribes in First and Second Kings revolted from his seed. 
The First and Second Chronicles see Judah captive made, 
But Ezra leads a remnant back by princely Cyrus' aid. 
The city walls of Zion Nehemiah builds again, 
While Esther saves her people from plot of wicked man. 
In Job we read how faith will live beneath afflictions' rod, 
And David's Psalms are precious songs to every child of God. 
The Proverbs like a goodly string of choicest pearls appear. 
Ecclesiastes teaches man how vain all things are here. 
The mystic Song of Solomon exalts sweet Sharon's rose; 
While Christ, the Saviour and the King, the rapt Isaiah shows. 
The warning Jeremiah apostate Israel scorns, 
His plaintive Lamentations then their awful downfall mourns. 
Ezekiel tells in wondrous words of dazzling mysteries. 
While kings and empires yet to come Daniel in vision sees. 
Of judgment and of mercy Hosea loves to tell; 
Joel describes the blessed days when God with man shall dwell. 
Amng Tekoa's herdsmen Amos received his call, 
While Obadiah prophesies of Edom's final fall. 
Jonah enshrines a wondrous type of Christ, our risen Lord. 
Micah pronounces Judah lost — lost, but again restored. 



Nahum declares on Nineveh just judgment shall be poured. 

A view of Chaldea's coming doom Habakkuk's visions give ; 

Next Zephaniah warns the Jews to turn, repent and live. 

Haggai wrote to those who saw the temple built again, 

And Zachariah prophesied of Christ's triumphant reign. 

Malachi was the last who touched the high prophetic chord; 

Its final notes sublimely show the coming of the Lord. 

Matthew and Mark and Luke and John the holy gospel wrote, 

Describing how the Saviour died, His life, and all He taught. 

Acts proved how God the apostles owned with sign in every 
place. 

St. Paul in Romans teaches us how man is saved by grace. 

The apostle in Corinthians instructs, exhorts, reproves. 

Galatians shows that faith in Christ alone the Father loves. 

Ephesians and Philippians tell what Christians ought to be; 

Colossians bids us live to God and for eternity. 

In Thessalonians we are taught the Lord will come from 
heaven. 

In Timothy and Titus a bishop's rule is given. 

Philemon makes a Christian's love, which only Christians 
know. 

Hebrews reveals the gospel prefigured by the law. 

James teaches without holiness faith is but vain and dead ; 

St. Peter points the narrow way in which the saints are led ; 

John in his three epistles on love delights to dwell. 

St. Jude gives awful warning of judgment, wrath and hell. 

The Revelation prophesies of that tremendous day 

When Christ — and Christ alone — shall be the trembling sin- 
ner's stay. 



BOOK SOCIAL. 



Each one present is to represent a book. Each person is 
provided with a pencil and paper and given plenty of time to 
guess the answers. 

The one guessing the most answers is given a prize of a 
small book. This social is good for any who want to collect 
books for a library for Sunday school or other societies where 
each one is asked to bring a book for library. 

Serve any kind of light refreshments. 



Again, the hostess may prepare a certain number of blank 
cards, with the heading on each one "Who and What?" On 
a second lot of cards she can have pasted the pictures of some 
noted writers — Thackeray, Dickens, Scott, Dumas, Balzac, 
Tolstoi, Browning, George Eliot, Carlyle, Longfellow, Cooper, 
Emerson, Bryant, Holmes. The pictures of more recent writ- 
ers will answer her purpose just as well. These pictures can 
be obtained from illustrated catalogues of books. Of these 
cards there should be as many as there are guests if the com- 
pany be a small one, or as many cards as the hostess may de- 
sire; a dozen is a very good number. 

Supply each guest with one of the blank cards and a pencil 
and then start into circulation the cards on which are pasted 
the pictures of the authors. Let the guests pass the cards 
from one to another, and write down, according to the num- 
ber on the picture-card, and opposite the corresponding num- 
ber on their own, the name of each author and some book he 
has written. This will be found a more difficult task than 
one imagines, and numerous guesses will doubtless go wide 
of the mark. The one whose card is filled out correctly, or the 
nearest to it, may be presented with a copy of .some late popu- 
lar book, and a toy book might be used as a booby gift. 



CLEVER PORTRAIT GAME. 



In this new and clever game a name card, with the num- 
bers from one to six written upon it, and a small pad of paper 
and a pencil, are handed to each guest. The gentlemen are 
then asked to select partners for each number upon their 
cards, and when this is done the hostess may give the signal 
for the game to begin and announce that "partners" may pro- 
ceed to draw each other's faces upon the pads of paper, each 
gentleman depicting the charms of his vis-a-vis, and each lady 
doing likewise. 

At the end of five minutes a bell gives the signal for the 
gentlemen to seek their next partners, and again the portrait- 
ure goes on. When all the partners have been taken and all 
the portraits drawn, each portrait being marked with the art- 
ist's initials and a number corresponding to the number the 
model occupies on each card, the collection is pinned to a sheet 
or portiere, and the guests are invited to guess whose likeness 
each drawing is meant to represent. 

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The one guessing the largest number of portraits correctly 
is given a prize of a photograph, and the one who has made 
the best portrait also receives one. 



CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. 



A birthday is an important event in a child's life, and 
should not pass unnoticed. 

A small party for those little ones is usually more enjoyable 
and more easily managed than a large one. With many moth- 
ers it is the custom to invite as many little guests as correspond 
to the number of years of the child whose birthday is cele- 
brated. 

Make the table look as attractive as possible with flowers. 
A pretty arrangement for a fifth birthday is to have a round 
table, with vines or a rope of wild flowers or leaves circled over 
it to represent a starfish. The sandwiches, confectionery, etc., 
the birthday cake in the centre, and the five guests seated be- 
tween the points of decoration. 

For a sixth birthday, a pretty arrangement suggests a star, 
the points to be made with the long fronds of the sword fern 
meeting. So many people have a pot of these ferns growing in 
their house, and the foliage is so abundant, that some of the 
older fronds of the plant may well be spared. The money 
myrtle is also effective for this decoration, and, in summer, the 
little partridge vine with its berries found in the woods. The 
•cake is in the centre, the children's plates between the points. 
Either a round or square table to be used as preferred. 

For an eighth birthday, an arrangement for square table is 
used. If the birthday comes in December, a rope of the 
Prince's pine, or other evergreen, is appropriate and very effec- 
tive for this decoration, with branches of holly or other red 
"berries at the corner the "goodies" to be placed in centre, and 
the plates for the children diagonally across each crown. 

For a tenth birthday, quite a long table is needed, and a 
pretty arrangement of vines in scallops, with a small bunch of 
flowers at each point is shown, the dashes representing places 
for the viands, and a child's plate in each one of the scallops. 

In all these arrangements due prominence must be given 
to the birthday cake, the principal feature of the feast. It is 



placed usually in the centre, is round, decorated with frosting, 
and as many tiny candles as the child is years old. These are 
placed in toy candlesticks, made so that they can be easily 
thrust into the frosting, and the candles are lighted just before 
the children go to the table. The candlesticks may be pur- 
chased at a toy store. It is an excellent idea to place some 
little souvenir in the cake for each child, the tiny china dogs, 
cats, and goats being desirable for this purpose. 

A candy house will make a novel and attractive centerpiece 
for a children's party table. Build a log house of red and 
white sticks of candy, and form the roof of strips of cake. For 
a rail fence use sticks of chocolate candy or straws and make 
the grass of spun candy. 



CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY FLOWER. 



Each month has a flower or plant appropriated to it, and to 
each a meaning is attached. The list as as follows : 
January — Snowdrop. July — Lily. 

February — Primrose. August — Poppy. 

March — Violet. September — Morning-glory. 

April — Daisy. October — Hops. 

May — Hawthorn. November — Chrysanthemum. 

June — Wild Rose. December — Holly. 

The snowdrop means consolation; the primrose, the fresh- 
ness of early youth ; the violet, modesty ; the daisy, innocence ; 
the hawthorn, hope ; the wild rose, simplicity ; the lily, purity ; 
the poppy, the consolation of sleep; the morning-glory, con- 
tentment; hops, joy; the chrysanthemum, cheerfulness; the 
holly, foresight and protection. 

The morning-glory is such a perishable flower that it is 
almost useless for the purpose of decoration, consequently it 
will be wise to substitute goldenrod in its stead. 



CHILDREN'S TOM THUMB GAME. 



For a children's party try the following device: Place 
four chairs in one end of the room and throw over them a 
large blanket or shawl to cover them completely down to the 



floor. Have some one double up his hands into fists, and on 
the back of the hands, with a piece of charcoal, paint eyes, 
nose and mouth, and on one of them paint a moustache. Put 
dolls' dresses on the arms, reaching down to the elbows. Put 
hoods or caps on the hands. Let the person thus prepared 
crawl in between the chairs, and resting the elbows on the 
floor, hold his forearm perpendicular, so that the backs of the 
hands will be facing the audience. All the rest of the person's 
body should be concealed, of course, under the shawl. Call 
these two little people Tom Thumb and his wife. Have some 
one for their manager, who should stand in front of the chairs 
and tell them what to do. The manager should explain why 
Tom has a dress on. He can have them perform a number 
of clever tricks, such as bowing to the audience, kissing each 
other, pushing each other, etc. They can answer questions in 
a little, fine voice, or say "How do you do?" 

It will be found that this entertainment will please the little 
folks immensely. 



CHILDREN'S SOUVENIRS. 



Souvenirs at a children's party should be very inexpensive. 
Candy put up in some pretty form is the most suitable thing 
that can be given. The dainty Japanese confections that may 
be purchased at any large store where Oriental goods are sold 
are novelties, and always please the little people. 

It is always a great pleasure to children to have something 
to take home with them from a party, and very inexpensive 
souvenirs will give happiness quite out of proportion to their 
value. Japanese trifles make pretty gifts, little boxes, bags or 
baskets filled with candy. Tiny kites are appropriate for boys, 
and fans for girls. Japanese dolls may be dressed with the 
lower part of the skirt prolonged into a bag and filled with 
candy. Only candy of the simplest kind should be used. 

Candy boxes in various fanciful forms, as banjos, drums, 
tambourines, watering-pots, pails, caps, helmets, fish, etc., may 
be purchased from any dealer in such wares. They are also 
made in the shape of birds and animals, as peacocks, canaries, 
turtles, alligators and elephants. Hollow oranges and apples, 
fruit baskets, with realistic cherries, grapes, etc., on top, and 
room for candy underneath, are very pretty. If these are 
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thought too expensive ornamented conucopias to hold bonbons 
may be procured at various prices, beginning at fifteen cents a 
dozen. Mottoes containing paper hats and caps may be pro- 
cured as cheaply as ten cents a dozen, and a package of these, 
holding as many as the child is years old tied with the birthday 
color, makes a dainty souvenir. Little cradles filled with 
candy and ornamented with bows are appropriate gifts. 



CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY PUDDING. 



A common washtub, filled with bran or sawdust can make 
a nice pudding for a child's party by putting the souvenirs in 
a layer in the bottom of tub, then a layer of sawdust, then 
more presents and so on until the tub is filled. Have a large 
wooden spoon and let each child make a dive with the spoon 
until he gets one souvenir. This will please the little ones. 



CHILDREN'S VALENTINE PARTY. 



From sheets of pink and creamy tinted paper, cut the req- 
uisite number of hearts — two of each invitation — and paste a 
pink heart and a creamy tinted one together along the edges, 
except at the large end, which must be left open to hold the 
written invitation. On a slightly smaller heart of thinner 
paper, write the following doggerel : 

"From half-past six to half-past nine, 
I pray you to be guests of mine. 
With Valentine, their patron Saint, 
Sure all good lovers are acquaint; 
So in his honor kindly spend 
A pleasant evening with a friend." 
Slip in the envelope formed by the two hearts, having first 
glued to the indentation at the larger end a loop of baby rib- 
bon by which to pull it out. On the white side of the envel- 
ope write the name and address ; on the pink side, an older sis- 
ter may draw cunning little Cupids, or hearts transfixed with 
little arrows. 



Cut from pink paper as many hearts as there are to be 
boys ; but no two of these hearts must be of the same size ; cut 
from gilt paper the same number of hearts, matching in size 
those cut from the pink. 

When the guests arrive, give each boy a pink and each girl 
a gilt heart. When a boy finds the girl who holds a gilt heart 
matching in size his pink one, they are partners for the even- 
ing. In this search all formality will have worn off. 



CUPID'S DARTS. 



Cupid's Darts will pass a jolly half-hour. Make a large 
heart of several layers of pink tissue-paper, and fill it loosely 
with bonbons ; encase this in a slightly larger heart of open- 
meshed bobinet ; hang on the wall on one side of the room by 
two loops sewed to the large, upper part of the heart. 

Provide a toy bow and arrow, and let each child in turn 
shoot at the heart. The arrows will remain sticking in the 
lace and paper, and the one whose arrow comes nearest the 
centre receives the first prize. Provide pretty boxes, and fill 
them with the candies for the children to take home. 

Stamp the sandwiches in the form of hearts, with a cake 
cutter; bake the cakes in heart-shaped tins, and have the ices 
frozen in the same design. 

As red and pink are the proper colors for decoration on 
this day, it will be a pretty idea to have the lemonade colored 
pink with fruit juice. 

Pretty favors can be made from crepe tissue-paper. Flow- 
ers, bonbon-boxes, handkerchief-cases, and many other trifles, 
will all please the young folks, the more especially if they are 
the work of their little hostress' own hands. 



CHILDREN'S SWEET PEA TEA. 



The invitations to this tea read like this : 

Prepare yourself for a Sweet Pea Tea, 
The 'bus will call for you at three. 
July, 19— 



In one corner of the card a sweet pea was painted in water 
colors. These cards were sent by mail. Of course, the re- 
cipients of these invitations had no idea where the party was 
to be, and waited in great expectation for the appointed day. 
Two 'bus men were engaged and furnished with a list of the 
invited, and at 3, or as nearly 3 as possible, called for the 
guests, and after a short and misleading drive arrived at last 
at their destination. 

After being received by the hostess the guests were given 
cards and pencils and ranged around a long table in the center 
of the room, on which were strewn leaves of many kinds of 
plants. Five minutes were given for guessing the plants to 
which the leaves belonged. At the expiration of that time 
the cards were taken (after names had been signed), and a 
prize given to the best guesser. 

The guests were then seated, and cards on which was the 
following list of questions passed: 1. What field flower is 
something to eat and a dish we drink from ? 2. What did the 
soldier say when he bade his sweetheart good-byef 3. The 
name of what flower is used every day in a slang expression? 
4. The name of what flower did Johnny's mother use when 
she told him to rise? 5. What hotel in New York city bears 
the name of a flower? 6. What flower is most popular in 
April? 7. The name of what flower means comfort? 8. 
What is the saddest flower? 

The answers are : 1. Buttercup. 2. For-get-me-not. 3. 
Daisy. 4. Johnny-jump-up. 5. Astor. 6. Easter lily. 7. 
Heart's-ease. 8. Bleeding-heart. 

The prize for this was a book of flowers and verses. 

A basket of sweet peas was then passed to the girls, a dif- 
ferent shade of flowers for each one. A similar basket was 
passed to the boys, and the search for partners began. The 
boy with the yellow sweet pea became the partner of the girl 
with the yellow. The boy with the white found the girl with 
the white, etc. The table was strewn with sweet peas, a cut- 
glass bowl of sweet peas graced the center, and on each napkin 
was pinned a small bunch of the flowers. 



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CHINESE PARTY. 



Invitations should read as follows : 

Come to the Chinese Tea Party 

and help eat 

Rice and Rats 

Prepared and Served by Chinese Girls 

at Church, 

Monday Evening, Jan. 4th. 

You can stimulate interest in the heathen wonderfully by 
inviting them to come, with all their bag and baggage, and pay 
your society a visit. Have booths in the room representing 
the countries in which the church is doing missionary work. 
Let the attendants be costumed like the natives, and all the 
appointments of the booths suggest the life of the countries 
represented. When curiosity is thus piqued, information 
about these mission lands may be circulated by the help of 
questions on cards to be passed around. Write the questions 
in black ink and underneath, in red ink, the answer to one of 
the other questions. It will require a pretty lively inter- 
change of cards for each one to find the answer to his ques- 
tion. 

The committee should try to make this evening as attrac- 
tive as possible, and have the members in Chinese costume as 
much as can be. Take the center of church room, fit it up as 
a booth, with large Chinese umbrella in center and small tables 
to serve refreshments. This can be made to look like a Chi- 
nese garden. Rice and rats can be served as follows Have 
com. cook rice and turn it in cups to cool. After ready to 
serve turn upside down in dishes and serve each dish with a 
candy rat on top. The rice should be served with cream and 
sugar. Also have tea and wafers. A small fee can be 
charged to go to missionary purposes. Of course no one but 
the committee should know what the rice and rats are to be, 
as it would spoil the fun. A nice idea would be to give chop 
sticks as souvenirs. 



CONUNDRUM TEA. 

1. A survivor of the flood (Ham). 

2. Woman of grit (Sandwich). 

3. Cattle in a railroad disaster (dried beef). 

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4. Impertinence (apple "sass"). 

5. Spring's offering (water). 

6. For old maids and bachelors (pickles). 
J. Tabby's party (cat sup). 

8. Boston's overthrow (cup of tea). 

g. What all people need (bread and butter). 

io. New England brains (baked beans). 

11. Young man's sweetheart (honey). 

12. An unruly member (tongue). 

13. Sahara (dessert). 

14. Tree cake (cocoanut cake). 



15. Love's symbol (doughnut). 

16. What I do when I mash my finger (ice cream). 

17. A mass of types (pie). 

18. Ivory manipulators (tooth picks). 

Note. — Each one can use their own judgment about the 
price charged. Charge as a regular dinner or each article by 
itself such as two cents, four cents, three cents, and so forth. 



CALICO CARNIVAL. 



The society who gave it had the oddly written announce- 
ment given below published in the local papers a week in ad- 
vance. They also used it as a handbill: 

"calico carnival." 

"Consider yourself cordially invited to be present at the 
correctly constructed and considerately combined calico car- 
nival to be held at Hall, Friday night, February — , 1901, 

admission fifteen cents. 

"Conspicuous courses served in confused compactness : One 
conglomerated compound circle. One cup communicative cor- 
dial (containing no chickory), or one cup of Chinese cheer, or 
one cup of choice churned cream and one cider cured cucum- 
ber, and one cup of cold comfort. 

"Rules and Regulations : All ladies to wear a calico gown, 
also requested to bring half a pound of carefully cut carpet 
rags. All gentlemen to wear a calico tie and kindly re- 
quested to bring a thimble. 



"Fines will be imposed for the following: Any lady who 
fails to wear a calico gown, ten cents ; any lady who fails to 
bring half a pound of carefully cut carpet rags, ten cents ; any 
gentleman who fails to wear a calico tie, twenty-five cents; 
any gentleman who fails to bring a thimble, five cents. 

"P. S. — There will be for sale cheap, cunning calico con- 
veniences that will be a constant comfort. 

"N. B. — Any person who sits in a corner and refuses to 
converse will be fined five cents. 

"The sale of calico conveniences will begin at ." 

Of course, everybody came. The fines and admissions 
alone would have paid the ladies for the trouble of getting up 
the carnival. 

Among the "calico conveniences" which sold readily were 
the following articles : Dusting caps, button bags and bags of 
every description, chair cushions, aprons with bibs and aprons 
without, and, in fact, everything that could possibly be man- 
ufactured from calico. 

The carpet rags were given to the gentlemen to sew. An 
inexpensive prize was given to the one who first finished his 
task. 



CAKE WALK (Novel Kind.) 



I hope this will not shock any of my readers, and I don't 
think it, will after it is read. It can be held in a church or 
Sunday school room without any conscious feeling on any 
one's part. Have each one come to represent a cake. For 
instance, sponge cake can be represented by having sponges 
all over the body. Batter cake by young man wearing base 
ball suit of clothes and carrying bat. Cup cake, by wearing 
cups around the neck and waist. Fruit cake by carrying bask- 
ets of different kinds of small fruits. Angel cake by wearing 
pictures of angels on the dress and hair. One, two, three, four 
cake by wearing the letters I, 2, 3, 4 pinned on dress or coat. 
Cookie by wearing chef's cap and apron and a large letter E 
will make that person cook-e. Plain cake by dressing very 
plain. Orange cake by carrying orange in each hand. Nut 
cake by carrying nuts. Any other cake can be represented by 
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carrying them out on the same plan. Each one should keep 
moving around so the people can see what each one repre- 
sents. A prize of a cake can be given for the one guessing 
the most correct answers. Refreshments should consist of 
every variety of cake with cocoa or coffee. 



CAKE SALE. 



Probably the description of a cake sale that was held for 
the benefit of a library fund may not come amiss to show just 
how attractive and successful such an affair can be made. 
The principal feature of this sale was the cake contest — a game 
with cake prizes. This game was devised to take the place of 
raffling, which was voted out of date. It was played by groups 
of ten, who on paying a fee were given a printed list of ques- 
tions to be answered. The list had to be signed with the play- 
er's name and put in the postoffice, by a certain time in the 
evening, and later the name of the prize-winner in each group 
was announced. To promote sociability and fun, a lady's and 
a gentleman's first prize, and a lady's and a gentleman's booby 
were given in each group. The prizes were cakes, iced and 
fancifully decorated with colored candies, and each cake was 
put on a wooden plate, covered with a frill of crepe paper. 
The boobies were ginger and sugar horsecakes. Below is the 
list of questions and answers used in the contest, which may 
be lengthened or shortened at will : 

Which cake did the society woman buy? Reception. The 
schoolgirl? Composition. The grocer? Sugar. The artist? 
Exhibition. The farmer? Harvest. The mean man? Sponge. 
The tramp? Loaf. The minister? Scripture. The milliner? 
Feather. The maiden aunt? Tea. The dairyman? Cream. 
The champion? Cup. The pretty girls? Ribbon. The 
jocky? Horse. The shoemaker? The last. The sculptor? 
Marble. The small boys? Snowballs. The gossip? Spice. 
The Bryan man? Silver. The young man for his sweetheart? 
Angel. The fond mamma for her daughter? Wedding. The 
candidate for office? Election. The politician? Plum. 

Then there were cakes for sale, whole or cut up, and 

small tables were placed at one end of the hall; here cake 

was served with tea, coffee or chocolate. The cake booths 

were attractively decorated with crepe paper and flags. Pos- 

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ters announced the specialties and prices at each. Watermelon 
cakes were the novelty at one booth; apple lemon cakes 
at another; a plentiful supply of cookies, dominoes, horse- 
cakes, gingerbread dolls and little patty pans cakes, containing 
a prize to attract the patronage of the children, at another. 
Little china dolls, marbles, china dogs, cats, vases, etc., were 
put in the dough when the little pans were filled. These china 
toys were not injured by the baking and delighted the children 
beyond measure. 

The cakes were baked in several different sizes, and sold 
for from twenty-five cents to one dollar. With each cake sold 
was given a copy of the recipe by which it was made, which 
was as follows: 



SCRIPTURE CAKE. 



1 cup of butter Judges 5 :2s 

S l / 2 cups flour 1 Kings 4 :22 

3 cups sugar Jeremiah 6 :20 

2 cups raisins 1 Samuel 30 :i2 

2 cups figs 1 Samuel 30 :i2 

1 cup water.... Genesis 24:17 

1 cup almonds >. Genesis 43:11 

6 eggs Isaiah 10 -.14 

1 tablespoonful honey Exodus 16 :2i 

A pinch of salt Leviticus 16:13 

Spices to taste 1 Kings 10 :io 

2 tablespoonfuls baking powder 1 Cor. 5 :6 

Follow Solomon's advice for making good boys, and you 

will have a good cake. Proverbs 23:14. 



CAKE THAT IS GOOD. 



For politicians — Gold cake or silver cake, and election cake. 

For a geologist — Layer cake. 

For a sculptor — Marble cake. 

For an advertiser — Puffs. 

For a tailor — Measure cake. 

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For a farmer — Hoe cake. 
For a milliner — Ribbon cake. 
For the devout — Angel cake. 
For a jeweller — Gems. 

For the irritable — Short cake and ginger snaps. 
For a baby — Flannel cake. 
For a lover — Lady fingers. 
For the betrothed — Wedding cake and kisses. 
For "bulls" and "bears" — Raised cake and drop cake. 
For a gossip — Spice cake. 
For an idler — Loaf cake. 
For an office-seeker — Washington cake. 
For a sufferer from "hay fever" — White Mountain cake. 
For pugilists — Pound cake and batter cakes. 
For a "doctor of the old school" — Cup cake. 
For the man who lives on his father-in-law — Sponge cake. 
For a dude — "Johnny" cake. 
For a belle — Vanity cake. 

For a music teacher — One, two, three, four cake. 
For those who partake too freely of the above-mentioned — 
Stoma cake. 



COOKIE SOCIAL. 



Cut paper shape and size of a cookie. Write a proverb ort 
each one, then cut each paper cookie in two parts, each a dif- 
ferent design, so there will be no two cookies alike. One-half 
give to the ladies, the other to the gents. Each person present 
then proceeds to match the half cookie they have, and when 
found, the proverb should read correctly. 

This a good way to get acquainted, and it leaves no 
"wall flowers," as every one is obliged to talk to every one 
to find out if they have other half of cookie. When matched 
the matched couple eat refreshments together. It is very nice 
to have some one play a march on piano and the matched part- 
ners form in line two by two and march to supper room. For 
refreshments serve all kinds, shapes, and sizes of cookies with 
coffee, or in summer serve lemonade. 
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COOKING SALE. 



Every lady in the church was asked to make, from sheets 
of brown wrapping paper, ten paper books of uniform size, 
four and one-half by six inches, sewing them to confine the 
leaves. The paper was two cents a sheet, and five sheets 
would make the ten books. 

In each book, clear and explicit written directions for ten 
of the best miscellaneous recipes that she used in cooking 
were to be contributed by each one, the same receipes- to be in 
the ten books furnished, and signed by th£ one contributing 
them. 

The ten recipes included one soup, one salad, one made- 
over dish, one cake recipe, one cooky recipe, two muffin or gem 
recipes, and three dessert recipes. 

One week was allowed for this work, then the books were 
sent where the sale was to take place. There were five hun- 
dred books in all, fifty ladies having responded to the re- 
quest. 

In the meatime, invitations had been sent to the members 
of the other two churches in the town, and to the summer 
-visitors, and the vestry-rooms were crowded the evening of 
the sale. 

The books were offered for sale at five cents each, and in 
less than an hour were all sold, those contributed by house- 
keepers famous for their cooking being in great demand, while 
all were of more or less interest in a town where every one 
is well known. 

After the sale of the recipes, the real sport of the enter- 
tainment began. Each lady who contributed recipes also 
brought a sample of cake made from the cake recipe she had 
given. These samples were of all sizes, wrapped in waxed 
paper and tagged with the maker's name. They were auctioned 
off without being undone, the name attached to the tag being 
read by the auctioneer, and much merriment was occasioned 
by the witty, bright way in which he drew attention not only 
to the cake, but to the one who made it. 



CHURCH FAIR. 



In arranging for any sort of church entertainment remem- 
ber that elaborate accessories are not of so much importance as 
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the display of cleverness in the carrying out of the ideas which 
form the basis of the entertainment. 

A cleveifc scheme for a church fair is the "Fairies' Garden," 
which is nothing more than the old grab-bag in a new dress. 
One seen recently was set up near a booth trimmed with 
evergreens, with a fence made of "cat-tails," planted about four 
inches apart, inclosing it in front. To this the people who 
were present flocked, and were free, on the payment of a small 
sum, to pull a flower or vegetable as they should see fit. With- 
in and at the back of the inclosure was a trellis made of wire 
netting with the largest holes procurable, covered with vines, 
among which nestled pink paper roses. In each rose a small 
present was hidden from view. 

Then there was a "pond," made of a tin boiler banked with 
stones and moss, and filled with water, on which floated water- 
lilies and leaves. To each lily was tied a weighted present, 
such as the water could not injure. 

A bed of real goldenrod planted in a box of sawdust, with 
the presents tied to the stems of the flowers and buried in 
the sawdust, completed the flower garden. 

The vegetable bed fully repaid for all the time and trouble 
spent upon it. It was an inclosure of four boards, filled with 
sawdust, the vegetables being made of paper and filled with 
cotton and the presents. 

After the vegetables and flowers were planted the beds 
were covered with moss. A few signs added to the effect, such 
as "Great South-Sea Bubble" for the bubble game, and "Please 
do not pull the cats' tails. By order of the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," for the cat-tail fence. 

Carrots, beets, onions and cabbages answered the purpose 
well, being of convenient shapes and very easily made. The 
carrots were made on a cornucopia of stiff brown paper, in 
which the present was put, and then the cornucopia was cov- 
ered with plain carrot-colored tissue paper, closed at the top, 
painted to imitate the creases in a carrot, and ornamented with 
a small tuft of leaves cut from green tissue paper. The beets 
were stuffed with cotton, in which the present was concealed, 
and then covered with the proper colored tissue paper. The 
onion bulbs were covered with crinkled cream-white tissue 
paper, and the tops were made of stiff white paper spills, or 
lamp-lighters, covered with dark green tissue paper. The cab- 
bages were of pale green and yellow — almost cream color — 
crinkled tissue paper, wound around the central ball of cot- 
ton ; the present was cut and pulled out in the shape of leaves, 
and twisted to form the stalk. 



There were four little girls dressed as "flower fairies," who 
kept the garden in order, and helped in many ways, looking 
very effective in their costumes of a "morning-glory," a "daf- 
fy-down-dilly," a yellow and white "daisy" and a "wild rose." 



CORN-HUSKING BEE. 



Late in October, when the corn has matured and been 
stacked in the barn, the following informal invitations may be 
sent out to all the neighboring young people : 
You are cordially invited 
to a Corn Husking to be held in 
Martin Mattice's Barn 
On the evening of October the thirty-first 
at eight o'clock. 
Previous to the evening mentioned the ears of corn are 
stripped from the stems and formed into two huge piles upon 
the barn floor. Lanterns should be hung here and there upon 
the beams to give the necessary light, and stools provided for 
the workers. The company, on arrival, is divided equally 
one-half being assigned to one pile, the other half to pile 
number two, and the contest begins, each division striving to 
finish its pile first. The husks must be entirely removed from 
each ear, and whoever first discloses to view a red ear is con- 
sidered especially fortunate, as the first red ear shown is sup- 
posed to bring good luck to its possessor. 

After all the ears have been husked the winner of the red 
ear is escorted in state to the house, where a warm fire (al- 
ways an open one, if possible) and a supper are waiting. 



CORN SUPPER. 



Decorate the walls of the room in which the supper is to be 
served with as much green as can be procured at this season 
of the year. Procure a dozen pumpkins, remove the pulp, cut- 
ting a hole at the top of the shell; cut also four stars in the 



sides of each pumpkin, cover with light yellow paper and place 
candles inside. These lanterns, being set in various convenient 
spots about the room and lighted just before the supper is 
served, shed a corn-colored glow over the room. Have the 
vase filled with any late autumn yellow flowers — dahlias, chrys- 
anthemums or marigolds; place a candle at each end of the 
table screened by yellow crepe paper shades. The refresh- 
ments may consist of egg and lemon butter sandwiches, corn- 
bread, chicken salad, sponge cake, gold cake, lemon ice cream 
and lemon water ice, cup custards, honey in the comb, lemon- 
ade and coffee. 



COBWEB SOCIAL. 



First, wind strings all over the house before the arrival of 
the company. Hang a string diagonally across one corner of 
the room, over which the ends of the strings can hang, and 
each one numbered. Numbers are to be given each one of the 
guests, and they are to hunt the string that has their number 
on. A sheet can be hung across this end of the room hiding 
everything from view until time for winding. Have some 
games ready to play for the amusement of guests until all 
have arrived. As soon as all the company gathers, the sheet 
can be removed and all commence hunting their numbers 
at once. They are told to go where ever the string leads to, 
but they may not succeed as the strings should be through key 
holes, under beds, out of doors, around the house, in at the 
windows, and every place where they can be put. 

Plenty of fun can be had if every one enters into the game 
and keeps it up until finished. Bananas and cake can be served 
at this social, or any other light refreshment that committee 
chooses. 



CHESTNUT SOCIAL. 



First procure a good quantity of chestnuts. Plain and 
roasted chestnuts may be sold at one table. They should be 
measured into pint and half-pint paper bags, ready for cus- 
tomers. 

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A second table will be needed for bon-bons. An excellent 
taffy is made by stirring chopped chestnuts into plain molasses 
candy when it is ready to take from the fire. 

Caramels are improved by adding chopped chestnuts. 
Chopped chestnuts and figs added to crisp sugar candy make 
a good sweet-meat. Shelled chestnuts are glazed by dipping 
in hot sugar candy. A variety of candies can be made from 
this recipe : One pound of confectioners' sugar, well beaten 
white of one egg, one tablespoonful cold water, one teaspoon 
vanilla. Mix well together and mould on a board. Mix it 
-with chopped chestnuts and cut into cubes. Small balls of the 
cream can be rolled between the hands, and a whole chestnut 
(shelled) pressed on one side. The cream can be colored with 
-fruit coloring and different shapes can be made from these. 
Shell chestnuts dipped in melted sweet chocolate are deli- 
cious. Old "chestnuts" are prepared by putting old jokes in 
shells, glue together and pass around, and will cause much 
fun and merriment for the young. Have large bowl of water 
with, three chestnuts in, and let each guest be given two tooth 
picks and try to get the chestnuts out of water with the tooth- 
picks, without getting fingers wet. 

PROGRAM FOR CHESTNUT SOCIAL. 

Have some one recite "Curfew shall not ring tonight" and 
""Over the hills to the poor house." Let some one sing "The 
old oaken bucket" and "Annie Laurie." Have some one read 
"The Sword of Bunker Hill" and "Bingen on the Rhine." 
Any variety of entertainment can be gotten up with a little 
forethought. 



CHRISTMAS MENU AND TABLE DECORATIONS. 



■Ottoman Country Roasted and Gorged (Roast Turkey) 

Swamp Red Fruit Sauce (Cranberry Sauce) 

Hibernian's Pride Crushed (Mashed Potatoes) 

Eucurbita Maxima Crushed (Mashed Squash) 

Stalks of Kalamazoo (Celery) 

Bivalve's Nestled (Escalloped Oysters) 

Dough Baked (Bread) 

-Cream Churned (Butter) 

Lover's Test (Pickles) 

Curd Pressed. . , (Cheese) 

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Arabian Nectar and Bossy's Best (Coffee and Cream) 

Rosy Cheeks and Bossy's Best (Peach Sherbet) 

Cherub's Diet (Angel's Food) 

Nature's Food (Fruit) 

Squirrel's Dependence (Mixed Nuts) 

Sweet Compound (Candy) 

Select for your color red and green. Set the dining table 
in the center of the room directly under the chandelier. Fasten 
a large bunch of holly with plenty of red berries, to the chan- 
delier, make garlands of evergreen to reach from the chan- 
delier to the four corners of the table, and fasten each corner to- 
the table cover with a bow of red ribbon. Have plenty of 
holly berries in the garlands of evergreen. If holly is dipped 
in a strong solution of alum water and dried in the sun, it will 
have the effect of being frosted. Have a red carnation with a 
sprig of green laid at each plate. Red and green paper napkins 
should be used. Have pretty side dishes of red and green 
things, such as red apples, red and green grapes, and all kinds, 
of red and green bonbons. The first part of menu as given 
should be printed or written and laid at each plate for the 
guests to study while the courses are being served. 



CHRISTMAS ANIMAL DECORATIONS. 



A STRANGE ANIMAL. 

A large yellow squash, fcur large carrots of sufficient size, 
to uphold the bulk of this animal, and a long slender carrot 
will serve as the neck, a long white turnip with red base for 
the head, and two slices of carrots for the ears, the eyes are 
cranberries stuck in with tooth picks, and a comb of tooth 
picks with cranberries on the ends, will make him a lordly 
sight. Around his neck put a collar of tooth picks, and a 
bunch of parsley for his tail. Upon various places around 
and about this animal were smaller animals. Red and white 
onions with natural tails, were adorned with rasin eyes and 
tooth pick legs, and given graceful altitudes. A cucumber 
sliced along the side with red eyes has a horrible cock roach 
effect. Turtles made of fat raisens with cloves for legs and 
head make effective ornaments. Large, long potatoes with 
tooth pick legs and cloves for eyes help the decorations. 
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PUMPKIN FRUIT BASKET. 

Select a large golden, well-shaped pumpkin, fashion in the 
form of a basket, with old-fashioned tub handles on each side. 
Take out seed and pulp, leaving a thin shell. Polish the rind 
and fill the basket with red and green apples, and red and 
green grapes. 

COLD SLAW IN CABBAGE SHELL. 

Cut fine the center of a cabbage, remove to leave a thin 
shell. Cook the yolk of six eggs, a teaspoonful of mustard, 
season with salt and pepper, vinegar and butter, mix all to- 
gether and serve in cabbage shell. 

STEAM SQUASH SERVED IN THE SHELL. 

Saw off the top of a hubbard squash and steam until ten- 
der, scoop out the pulp, mash thoroughly, season with salt, pep- 
per and butter, reheat, and return to the shell. Serve squash 
on plate. 

CHRISTMAS CAKE. 

Cover a large cake with boiled frosting. Decorate with red 
candies in the shape of a star, and small red candles. Use 
citron for holly leaves, and small red candies for berries. 

PEACH SHERBET. 

'Take nice soft peaches perfectly ripe, pare and chop fine, 
make them very sweet, mash them to a fine jam. To each 
quart of peaches, add one pint of cream, and one pint of rich 
milk. Mix well and freeze. Serve in sherbet cups. 



EASTER SOCIAL. 



Have printed programs sent out with the following an- 
nouncement. We have in it the East End Connett Y, but any 
name can be used: 

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An eggs-ellent plan has been adopted by 

the East End Connett Y, to eggs-haust the 

eggs-pence of sending delegate to State Convention. 

The eggs-pence of admission is eggs-actly ten cents. 

We mean to have an' eggs-ellent time. 

You are urged to eggs-ert yourself to come and 

eggs-amine for yourself. 

You can eggs-pect to have lots of fun at small eggs-pence 

An eggs-ellent committee will wait upon you. 

Plenty of eggs will be served. 

Eggs-it at your pleasure. 

N. B. — Plenty of Easter Eggs novelties will be sold. 

A fruit-stand covered with moss and twigs, and arranged 

to represent a nest filled with eggs and placed upon a bed of 

moss, forms the central decoration for the table. Around the 

nest are four large rabbit bonbonnieres. Pieces of baby ribbon 

of all colors are fastened to their forepaws and run out to the 

plate line between the places, each ribbon being strung with 

eggs. Between the four large rabbits four smaller ones peer 

out from under the nest between the ribbons. 

Provide each person present with a dime, leadpencil, sheet 
of paper, upon which following list is printed 
Find upon the dime the following articles : 
i. Fruit of a tropical tree (date). 

2. What the Siamese twins were (United.) 

3. What a lazy man seldom gets (ahead.) 

4. The division of a country (states). 

5. The cradle of liberty (America). 

6. Something a school boy makes (figures). 

7. An instrument to catch sound (ear). 

8. A number a miser takes care of (one). 

9. What makes the forest green (foliage). 

10. Something a boot black likes to give (shine). 

Of course the answers are not printed, but are kept by the 
committee to refer to. A prize of one dime can be given the 
one with the most correct answers. Any article of Easter 
novelties can be sold for a dime. For refreshments serve eggs 
in every form, with bread and butter and coffee, for one dime. 



FLOWER SOCIAL. 



Decorate the room prettily with vases of cut flowers and 
the like. One way to manage decorations is to ask each guest 



to bring to the social as many cut flowers as possible, with the 
understanding that all are to be sent to the hospital the next 
day. Request a number of the guests to come prepared to read 
or recite some poem or prose selection dealing with a flower. 
If possible, let them hold this flower in the hand when read- 
ing or reciting. Read Jack in the Pulpit. 

If your society has been holding a contest in plant-raising, 
the exhibition of plants should be made on this occasion, and 
the award of prizes made. For the literary exercises of the 
evening, get some one to read an essay on the flowers of the 
Bible. Have a debate on the national flower, appointing a 
jury, and getting the different members of the society to pre- 
sent the claims of the Mayflower, the corn, the apple-blossom, 
the columbine, and all the other beautiful claimants. For 
music, have the "Flower Song," and other pieces with flowery 
names. 

Collections of pressed flowers may be on view at tables, 
with their owners to explain them. If you know of a good 
botanist, with a large microscope, place him at another table 
with a collection of interesting plant slides, which he will 
show and talk about. 



FLOWER POEM. 



Under the green trees just over the way, 
Jack-in-the-pulpit preaches today; 
Squirrel and song sparrow, high on their perch, 
Hear the sweet Lily-bells ringing to church. 

Come hear what his reverence rises to say 

In his queer little pulpit this fine Sabbath day. 

Fair is the canopy over him seen 

Painted by Nature's hand black, brown and green. 

Green is his pulpit, and green are his bands, 

In his queer little pulpit the little priest stands. 

In black and gold velvet, so gorgeous to see, 
Comes with his bass voice the chorister bee ; 
Green fingers playing unseen on wind lyres, 
Bird voices singing, these are his choirs. 
The violets are deacons, I know by this sign, 
The cups that they carry are purple with wine. 
The Columbines bravely as sentinels stand 
On the lookout with all their red trumpets in hand. 
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Meekfaced Anemone drooping and sad, 

Great yellow Violets smiling out glad, 

Buttercups' faces beaming and bright, 

Clovers with bonnets, some red, and some white; 

Daisies, their fingers half clasped in prayer, 

Dandelions, proud of the gold of their hair. 

Innocents, children, guileless and frail, 
Their meek little faces upturned and pale; 
Wildwood Geraniums all in their best, 
Languidly leaning in purple gauze dressed ; 
All are assembled this sweet Sabbath day 
To hear what the priest in his pulpit will say. 

Lo, white Indian pipes on the green mosses lie; 

Who has been smoking profanely, so nigh? 

Rebuked by the preacher the mischief is stopped, 

But the sinners in haste have their little pipes dropped. 

Let the wind with the fragrance of Fern and black Birch 

Blow the smell of the smoking clear out of the church. 

So much for the preacher, the sermon comes next ; 

Shall we tell how he preached it and where was the text? 

Alas, like too many grown up folks who pray 

Or worship in man-builded churches today, 

V/e heard not the preacher expound or discuss ; 

We looked at the people and they looked at us ; 

V/e saw all their dresses, their colors and shapes, 

The trim of their bonnets, the cut of their capes ; 

We heard the wind organ, the bee and the bird, 

But of Jack-in-the-pulpit we heard not a word. 

J. G. Whittier. 



FLOWER SPROUTS. 



When the guests have assembled each one is given a tiny 
flower pot. These are easily made out of red paper — a long 
strip and a round, with the aid of the mucilage pot. In these 
tiny pots the following list of flowers to be guessed is tucked 
away : 

MAKE THESE HIDDEN FLOWERS SPROUT. 

1. An amiable man, (Sweet William). 

2. The pulse of the business world (Stocks). 

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3. A title for the sun (Morning-glory). 

4. A bird and a riding accessory (Larkspur). 

5. A pillar of a building and a syllable that rhymes with 
dine (Columbine). 

6. A flower between mountains (Lily of the Valley). 

7. A farewell sentiment (Forget-me-not). 

8. A dude and an animal (Dandelion). 

9. A part of the day (Four o'clock). 

10. The result of Cupid's arrows (Bleeding Heart). 

11. The place for a kiss (Tulips). 

12. A yellow stick (Golden Rod). 

13. A product of the dairy and a drinking utensil (But- 
tercup). 

14. One of the Four Hundred (Aster). 

15. What Cinderella should have advertised for (Lady 
Slipper). 

16. A wild animal and a bit of out-door wearing apparel 
(Foxglove). 

The list of answers is, of course, kept in hand by the hos- 
tess. When the first part of the game has been played and the 
answers verified, a continuation of the fun is a contest of all 
as to who can write the best verse containing in any way what- 
ever all the above flowers. Judges must be appointed, and, of 
course, prizes awarded for the verse contest as well as for the 
guessing game. This last contest may be omitted, if wished, 
but it adds fun and calls forth much ingenuity and clever- 
ness. The prizes might be little potted plants, so many of 
which grace the florists' windows at this time of year. These 
for the women and scarf-pins in the shapes of flowers for the 
men. 



FLORAL LOVE STORY. 



1. The girl's name and the color of her hair (Marigold). 

2. The color of her eyes (violet). 

3. Her brother's name and an adjective that just describes 
her (Sweet William). 

4. Her brother's favorite musical instrument (trumpet). 

5. At what time did he awaken his father with it (four 
o'clock) . 

6. With what did his father punish him (goldenrod). 

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7. What did the boy do (balsam). 

8. What office in the Presbyterian church did her father 
fill (elder). 

9. Being a farmer, what was his occupation in spring 
(plantain). 

10. Her lover's name and what he wrote it with (jonquil). 

11. What, being single, he often lost (bachelor buttons). 

12. What confectionery he took to her (peppermint). 

13. What he did when he proposed (aster). 

14. What ghastly trophy did he lay at her feet (bleeding 
heart). 

15. What did she give him in return (heartsease). 

16. What did she say to him (Johnny-jump-up). 

17. What flower did he cultivate (tulips). 

18. To whom did she refer him (poppy). 

19. What minister married them (Jack-in-the-pulpit). 

20. What was wished with regard to their happiness (live- 
forever. 

21. When he went away, what did she say to him (forget- 
me-not). 

22. With what did she punish her children (lady's slipper). 

23. What hallowed their last years (sweet peas). 

— Floral Love Story by Miss Mabel Leach Co. Y. Sec'y. 



FEAST OF SEVEN TABLES. 



This feast if well planned and carried out is most pleas- 
ing in its results. There are seven tables. These tables are 
set in white, with center pieces and other decorations to carry 
out the color scheme. Have first table near the door, and 
others arranged according to the menu, which can be changed 
to suit the seasons. It is necessary to have two sets of wait- 
ers, the first to clear away, and the second to furnish fresh sup- 
plies. All must dress to harmonize with the colors of their 
tables. Serve food in small quantities and in small dishes. 
At the ringing of a bell seven guests are seated at the first 
table. At the expiration of seven minutes, the bell again rings, 
and those at the first table pass to the second table, and seven 
other guests are permitted to enter the room, and to be seated 
at the first table. Here is where the waiters will have to hurry 
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and reset the tables. At the close of every seven minutes the 
bell rings, signalling all to pass up one table. Seven persons 
pass out every seven minutes, and forty-nine are fed in as 
many minutes. A novel idea is to charge seven cents on en- 
tering the dining room, seven cents when through at the last 
table, and seven cents as they pass out the door, making 
twenty-one cents for each guest. They will not object after 
they are through with the program at seven tables. 

Winifred M. Simonds. 



MENU AND DECORATIONS FOR SEVEN TABLES. 



WHITE TABLE. 

White Table Cloth. White Napkins. 

White Dishes. White Flowers. 



Shredded Potatoes. Cold Roast Pork. 

White Bread and Butter. Milk. 

BROWN TABLE. 

Brown Table Cloth. Doilies Worked in Brown. 

Brown Dishes. Brown Leaves Pressed. 

MENU. 

Brown Bread .and Butter. Boston Baked Beans. 
Brown Coffee. Brown Pickles. 

GREEN TABLE. 

Green Bordered Table Cloth. Green Flowered Dishes. 
Green Paper Napkins. Green Foliage. 



Wafers tied 


with Green 


Olives. 


Ribbon. 




Green Tea. 


Lettuce. 




Pickles. 




RED TABLE. 


Old Fashioned Red Table 


Red Napkins. 


Cloth. 




Red Flowers. 


Red Flowered Dishes. 








MENU. 


Red Cake. 




Cranberry Sauce. 




Wafers Tied with Red Ribbon. 






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ORANGE TABLE. " 1 

Orange Bordered Table Orange Paper Napkins. 

Cloth. Orange Colored Flowers. 

MENU. 

Orange Wafers. Sliced Oranges. 

Orange Cake. 

YELLOW TABLE. 

Yellow Bordered Table Cloth. Yellow Paper Napkins. 
Yellow Figured Dishes. Yellow Flowers. 

MENU. 

Lemon Pie. Cheese. 

Lemonade. 

PINK TABLE. 

Pink Bordered Table Cloth. Pink Paper Napkins. 
Pink Flowered Dishes. Pink Flowers. 

MENU. 

Pink Cakes. Pink Candies. 

Pink Popcorn. 

Pink Carnation for Each Guest. 



FLAGS OF NATIONS. 



Secure as many cards as there are to be guests, and paint 
or paste on them some five or six small flags of different na- 
tions, numbering each flag. Sometimes one can obtain small 
buttons with these flags on them, and these answer quite as 
well. It is better to have each card different, and to assort 
the flags, so that every card may contain some not very gener- 
ally known. The United States flag might be omitted, as 
every one would be familiar with that; but the flag of Liberia 
could be used on several cards, as its resemblance to our flag 
would be apt to deceive many. 

Hand a card and a pencil to each guest. The pencil may be 

made quite attrictive by covering it with a strip of crepe-paper 

in some bright color. This can be easily accomplished by 

cutting the paper into lengths a little longer than the pencil, 

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pasting one side, and rolling the pencil in the paper, then 
tying with a bow or narrow ribbon. After the guests are 
supplied with cards and pencils let each one write opposite the 
.flags the countries whose emblems they are. This will be 
found no easy matter, unless the guest should be a sailor or a 
globe-trotter, and many amusing guesses will be recorded. 

The one who succeeds in guessing the countries correctly, 
or in guessing nearest, might be rewarded with a United 
States flag pin or a pretty silk flag. For making awards the 
hostess should have a list of the flags that are on each card, 
which should be numbered, and compare the list with the 
.guesses handed in by the company. 



FUN FOR PARTY. 



Prepare printed or written slips with proverbs such as 
""Every cloud has a silver lining" and so on, until you have one 
hundred or more, then cut each slip in three or four pieces, 
and put all about the rooms, upon tables, stands, picture 
frames, mantles, and so forth. After all the guests are as- 
sembled, provide each one with a good sized piece of card- 
board, or real heavy paper, and explain that each one is to find 
-enough pieces to complete a sentence, and when completed 
they are to paste them on the card-board, with brush and 
mucilage, which is placed upon a table convenient to all. After 
-all slips have been used each one hands his paper to his next 
neighbor for correction. The one who has the most complete 
sentences can be given a prize. This is a good way to get ac- 
quainted, as each one has to walk around all the while they 
.are collecting their slips. Light refreshments should be 
.served after so much exertion and exercise. 



FOURTH OF JULY LUNCHEON. 



A Fourth of July luncheon has the table decorated with 
red and white carnations and blue bachelor's buttons. These 
are distributed about in different slender vases, each holding 
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one variety alone of red, white or blue flowers. A kitchen- 
table is placed so that one of the legs is directly in front. 
About the legs a deep valance of American flag paper is 
draped, the paper being gathered very full on the legs. On 
the table a large round table-top covered with white paper is 
placed, and the edge is festooned with flag paper. Between 
the festoons American flags are pushed. Smaller flags are 
used for decorating the centrepiece, which is improvised from* 
glass cake-stands holding cups in which fruit punch is to be 
served. The paper napkins are red, white and blue, and the 
refreshments are to be served upon red and blue plates. 
In the releve dishes stand tiny American flags; the sandwiches 
are tied with narrow red, white and blue striped ribbon,, 
as are the handles of the little glass cups in which punch 
is served. At each plate is a bonbon box made in the 
shape of a cannon firecracker, which is filled with small red 
candies ; this serves also as a guest card, the name being writ- 
ten in white ink at the side. The ice is served in little drums.. 
The menu suggested is iced currants ; iced bouillon — water- 
cress sandwiches; cold salmon, sauce Tartare; tongue in aspic; 
tomatoes with French dressing; raspberry shrub; pineapple 
salad ; cheese crackers ; ice cream in drums ; cakes, bonbons. 



GAME OF HISTORY. 



You can help make an hour at a social fly so quickly that, 
the most bashful person present will say it was only ten min- 
utes long, by the help of cards bearing small pictures which: 
have been cut from newspaper advertisements. For in- 
stance, Arkansas may be formed by a capital R, a sprinkling- 
can, and a saw; Iowa, a large I, and a picture of a grocer's: 
scales — I-weigh; Sacramento, by a sack, "ra," a group of men, 
and the toe of a slipper; Belgium, by a bell and a stick-pin 
(Bell-gem) ; and so on with a host of such names as Ohio,.. 
Red Sea, Arizona, Orange, Wheeling, Waterbury, Catskill. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL GAME. 



Seat the players in a row. Let the first one say aloud the 
name of a city, mountain, river, lake, etc., located in any part 
•of the world ; the next player give a name beginning with the 
final letter of the previously said name, and the third supply 
one beginning with the final letter of the second, and so on 
around the ring. Thus: America, Athens, Santiago, Ohio. 
Each player is allowed thirty seconds in which to think. If, 
"by the end of that time, he has failed to supply a name, he 
must drop out of the game. The one who keeps up longest 
is the champion. Any player, at any time, may be challenged 
to give the geographical location of the place he has named. 
If, on demand, he cannot do so he must pay a forfeit. 



GAME OF FACTS. 



Slips of paper and pencils are distributed, and each person 
present is requested to write upon his slip one fact about the 
late war with Spain, and sign his name. The papers are then 
to be passed to the right-hand neighbors, and each is to write 
on a fresh slip an additional fact, signing his name to it. 



GOLF LUNCHEON. 



When our golfing enthusiast desires to entertain her golf- 
ing friends, she cannot do better than bid them to a luncheon 
set to the key-note of their favorite sport. 

Naturally, the table decorations will be red and green — 
deep red roses or scarlet geraniums laid in flat bunches upon 
the "fair field" of snowy cloth and encircling the dishes, 
caught together by "links" of smilax. Perhaps, too, pale 
green candles, beneath ruby-hued shades, might still further 
carry out the scheme of color. It may be arranged by hav- 
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ing a "putting green" in the centre made of a square of & 
sponge cake frosted with pistachio. A little hole should be 
cut in the centre. Miniature caddy bags made of red satin 
and filled with red geraniums and ferns are pretty decorations. 
A little golf-ball for the putting green can be made by cov- 
ering a preserved cherry with white icing. "Bunkers" may be 
made across the corners of the table by using fine wire net- 
ting. 

On the walls of the dining room hang the panels from a 
poster calendar illustrating golf. In the centre of the table, 
laid for twelve, place in state a small chain, a tin tea canister,, 
and a certain suit of thirteen playing cards. These repre- 
sented three necessities of golf; "the links," a "caddy," and 
"good clubs." At each place a small caddy bag held the 
knives, forks and spoons of the service, and in the bottom of 
each bag was a "Jackson ball" — one of those hard, striped red 
and white, old-fashioned candies. 

The place cards and caddy bags were easily made. The 
cards were decorated with the figures of golf advertisements,, 
cut from the backs of magazines and colored with water-col- 
ors. For the caddy bags the materials were a tube of library 
paste, a sheet of brown tissue-paper, and three sheets of flex- 
ible cardboard, one of red, one of green and one of brown. 
The mould was a wooden cylinder seven inches long and an 
inch and three-quarters in diameter. A six-inch square of red- 
or green card-board, rolled around the mold, was gummed in 
place. For the bottom, a circular piece of brown mounting 
board was held in place by a one-inch strip of the same; el 
similar strip at the top; a handle and a lining of tissue-paper 
made a very respectable caddy bag, out of which stuck the 
ends of the knives, forks and spoons, much like real clubs,, 
drivers, brassies and irons in a real golf bag. 

The menu may be according to the taste and purse of the 
hostess, but the bread sticks and cheese straws should be fash- 
ioned like unto golfing sticks, and the ices be in the form of 
balls, small and white, and round as those that merrily fly 
across the rolling turf. Lastly, with the coffee and bon-bons, 
are passed cards on which are daintily painted bags of golfing 
implements, heads of pretty girls in outing hats, or bits of 
rural landscape. If, however, this artistic touch be not prac- 
ticable, a natural flower may be fastened across one corner. 
To each card, also, is attached a tiny pencil by red baby rib- 
bon, while on it the following conundrums are inscribed, in 
order to test the wits of the guests and prove if they be as 
quick mentally as they are athletically. 
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The questions, of course, only are given, the hostess re- 
taining the "key" that she may decide upon the correctness of 
the answers. 



GOLF GUESSING GAMES. 



WHAT GOLFING TERM SIGNIFIES. 

1. A coachman? Driver. 

2. An oriental herb ? - Tee. 

3. A receptacle for the herb? Caddie. 

4. What an impudent fellow is apt to be? Brassie. 

5. A rustice expression for aimless working? Putter. 

6. A bazzar and a color? Fair-green. 

7. The point of a pen and a lap of the tongue ? Niblic. 

8. To crush and two letters? Mashie. 

9. A chance? Hazard. 

10. A large social function? Ball. 

11. A definite and an indefinite number. Four-some. 

12. Parts of a chain? Links. 

13. A bed and a mistake? Bunker. 

14. Number twenty? Score. 

15. Little pits? Holes. 

The two who, within a given time, answer the most of 
these fifteen questions should be rewarded with appropriate 
prizes, as one of the handy little score books to be slipped 
upon a belt and containing the official score; a picture of the 
typical golf girl; or some volume written on the popular and 
fascinating game. 



GEORGE AND MARTHA TEA. 



Have walls hung with red, white, and blue bunting, relieved 
at regular intervals with shields and small hatchets made of 
flowers in the national colors. 

Have George and Martha receive the guests, and there 
also may be a number of men and women attired in colonial 
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costumes to introduce strangers and see that all have a good 
time. 

Behind a bower of foliage an orchestra might play the na- 
tional airs, and as the object of the evening should be to pro- 
mote sociability, it would be well to have a number of interest- 
ing games in which all can join. 

One of these might be a list of the presidents in anagram 
form, written on a large black-board; the names in brackets, 
of course, are not written out, thus : 



L m jak pokes 
Yatch lazy roar 
Lord film rill a me 
Knife lancer rip 
Jamb haunce ans 
Berth your she fad 
C H hurt a rare set 
Jasmine in horn bar 
Willie m mink clay 
O shogging rantwee 
Jam nod has 
Oft John fear mess 
Mard jess moan 
Jo means more 
Jay chins Quon dam 
Son rack and Jew 
A rum Tannin verb 
Harsh iron aim will 
If gales mead jar 
Carver delve long 
Man in cab or hall 
Yes glass turns 
Holy ren J.T- 



(James K. Polk) 
(Za chary Taylor) 
(Millard Fillmore) 
(Franklin Pierce) 
(James Buchanan) 
(Rutherford B. Hayes) 
(Chester A. Arthur) 
(Benjamin Harrison) 
(William McKinley) 
(George Washington) 
(John Adams) 
(Thomas Jefferson) 
(James Madison) 
(James Monroe) 
(John Quincy Adams) 
(Andrew Jackson) 
(Martin Van Buren) 
(William H. Harrison) 
(James A. Garfield) 
(Grover Cleveland) 
(Abraham Lincoln) 
(Ulysses S. Grant) 
(John Tyler) 



I. 

2. 

3- 

4- 
5- 
6. 
7- 
8. 
9- 

10. 

ii. 

12. 

13- 
14. 

IS- 

16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 

At the end of half an hour present to the most successful 
guesser a George Washington hat of violet candy filled with 
red and white bonbons. 

But let the main feature of the evening be a small room 
fashioned into a studio the lads and lassies in charge and 
everything about the room having an old-time look. 

Above the door have printed in the quaint spelling of long 
ago that all who wish can have a silhouette picture of them- 
selves for only five cents, and doubtless a goodly sum will be 
realized as people are always interested not only in their own, 
but their friends' physiogoomy, and much fun will follow in 
exchanging shadow pictures. 

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Have ready a quantity of large sheets of paper, black on one 
side and white on the other, also white cardboard, the sheets 
of white paper to be fastened to the wall, white side out, and 
a lighted candle placed about three feet opposite the paper. 
Then the one having his picture taken is seated between the 
candle and wall, so that a strongly defined profile falls upon 
the paper, the shadow being traced with a steady hand and 
cut out, and then pasted on the cardboard. 

An old-fashioned candelabrum surrounded by a wreath 
of blue violets, red and white carnations, might grace the cen- 
tre of the table, and at either end tall silver candlesticks with 
candles burning under shades of a rosy hue. 

Let the bonbons be held in boxes imitating the cockade hat 
of the Continental Army, and the sandwiches of different 
kinds and sorts, with tiny silk flags bearing the name of the 
sandwich. Besides these the eatables might consist of good 
old-fashioned ginger-bread, crullers, doughnuts, and coffee, 
followed by apples and nuts. 



'HATCHET PARTY. 



If the Hatchet Party is given at home appropriate invita- 
tions can be issued in the form of a hatchet, bearing the words 
in quaint letters : 

"Ye Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union ex- 
tends ye invitation to meete ye Hatchet Familie of ye an- 
ciente tyme at ye home of Miss May Caspel, 236 Bell Ave., on 
Wednesday evening, ye 22nd of Febuarie of ye year A. D., 
1902, 8 o'clock." 

The decorations should conform to the spirit of the even- 
ing. A large hatchet covered with white curled tissue paper 
may be hung in the hall. Plaques of little red, white and blue 
batchets may take the place of flowers, and in the hall or re- 
ception room there should be a little table of "Souvenirs." 
These should be little bronze hatchets with the letters Y. W. C. 
T. U. on one side. Their handles should be tied with narrow 
-ribbons — red, white and blue — and each guest should be allowed 
to select his color. Thus everybody has the opportunity 
offered to him of becoming a member by selecting the white 
ribbon, and in this way everybody is compelled to "show his 
■colors." 

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If simple refreshments are served, let the Japanese napkins, 
have a big hatchet gilded on them, and let there be some plates, 
of hatchet cookies, formed by the cutter that any tinsmith will- 
make from a pattern. 

Have old-fashioned candy — peppermint, wintergreen, sas- 
safras and molasses — instead of bonbons. Play the old games 
— hunt the slipper, blind man's buff, hide and seek. 

NAME FOR THE GUESTS. 

Johanna Adams Hatchet, Wilhemina Henrietta Harrison 

Tomazine Jefferson Hatchet, Hatchet, 
Jamesina Madison Hatchet, Johnesetta Tyler Hatchet, 
Jemima Monroe Hatchet, Marty Van Buren Hatchet, 

J. Quinciana Adams Hatchet, Jinny Keturah Polk Hatchet,, 
Andrewsia Jackson Hatchet, Zacharina Taylor Hatchet, 
Millarella Fillmore Hatchet. 
Ask the girls to come in the Martha Washington dress, a 
flowered chintz or silk overdress, opening in front to show a 
silk or sateen skirt of a plain color, which may be quilted if 
desired. The waist is made to open over a white neck hand- 
kerchief and has elbow sleeves. A little round mob cap of 
muslin or lace, with a frill, a band of ribbon around it, and a 
coquettish bow complete the costume. If the boys will come 
in costume they should wear knee-breeches and stockings,, 
shoes with buckles, swallowtail coats, long waistcoats — white 
or of some flowered material — and frilled shirt fronts. 



HALLOWE'EN PARTY. 



All formality must be dispensed with on Hallowe'en nights 
Not only will quaint customs and mystic tricks be in order, 
but the decorations and refreshments, and even the place of 
meeting, must be as strange and mystifying as possible. 

For the country or suburban home a roomy barn is de- 
cidedly the best accommodation that could be provided. If 
this is not practicable, a large attic, running the entire length 
of the house, is the next choice; but if this also is denied the- 
ambitious hostess, let the kitchen be the place of meeting and 
of mystery, with the dining-room, cleared of its usual furni- 
ture and decorated suitably for the occasion, reserved for the 
refreshments. 

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The light should be supplied only from Jack-o'-lanterns 
hung here and there about the kitchen, with candles in the 
dining-room. 

The decorations need not be expensive to be charming, no 
matter how large the room. Large vases of ferns and chrys- 
anthemums and umbrella stands of fluffy grasses will be de- 
sirable; but if these cannot be readily obtained, quantities of 
galyly tinted autumn leaves will be quite as appropriate, and 
festoons of nuts, bunches of wheat or oats, and strings of 
cranberries may also help to brighten the wall decorations, and 
the nuts and cranberries will be useful in many odd arrange- 
ments for ornamenting the refreshment table. 

Have the table long enough (even if it must be extended 
with boards the whole length of the barn or attic) to accom- 
modate all the guests at once. Arrange huge platters of gin- 
ger-bread at each corner, with dishes of plain candies and 
nuts here and there, and pyramids of fruit that will be quickly 
demolished when the guests are grouped about the table. No 
formal waiting will be desirable. 



HALLOWE'EN TABLE DECORATIONS. 



The newest fashion in Hallowe'en supper-table decorations 
is a cake made of white pasteboard boxes, in shape like pieces 
of pie, which fits into one another and give the appearance of a 
large cake. Each one of the boxes is covered with a white 
paper which resembles frosting. At the close of the feast 
the pieces are distributed, each box containing some little 
souvenir suitable to Hallowe'en. One box, of course, contains 
a ring, another a thimble, a third a piece of silver, a fourth a 
mitten, a fifth a fool's cap, and so on. Much fun is created as 
the boxes are opened, and the person who secures the ring is 
heartily congratulated. The unlucky individual who gets the 
fool's cap must wear it for the evening. 

For refreshments have in the early part of the evening 
nuts and raisins, and at the end of the evening have coffee, 
sandwiches, pickles, doughnuts and cake. 
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HALLOWE'EN GAMES. 



Have a card and a candle for each guest, the candles in as 
many different colors as possible, and one corner of each card 
turned down and tied with baby ribbon — one color for ladies 
and another for gentlemen. On the cards have couplets writ- 
ten foretelling future events, such as: 

Who gets the candle colored red 

Will have long life, but never wed. 

If you choose the candle green 

You'll have the prettiest wife e'er seen. 

For you the kind fates have a plan 

Whereby you will get a man. 

Let each guest take a card and a candle (if the base of the 
candle is warmed it will stick to the card), read the couplet 
aloud, then light the candle, and holding it at arm's length 
blow it out. If it is blown out the first trial the person will 
be married within a year. 

Write rhymes of four or six lines on thin paper, and place 
in a chestnut shell. Tie together with ribbon, the ladies' in 
one color, the gentlemen's in another. If there are personal 
hits in the rhymes, tie the name of the person for whom each 
one is intended on the outside of the shell. 

Here were more Hallowe'en mysteries. The ring-cake occu- 
pied the place of honor in the center of the table, and at 
either side were baskets of rosy-cheeked apples, each having 
the initials of a name marked in the skin, for the counting 
of the seeds. At each place was a card, which the guests 
found to their surprise to be obsolutely blank. Following the 
direction of their host, however, the cards were held over the 
flame of the candles, and each one saw his fate written in red 
letters, hitherto invisible. The explanation was simple, for 
all that had been necessary to produce the apparent miracle 
was white ink made from common baking soda and water. 
At each place, also, were two finger-bowls, one containing 
clear water and the other water with a slice of lemon floating 
on top. On whichever one of these was used first depended 
whether or not the course of true love would run smooth, the 
unwitting use of the clear water signifying that all would be 
well. 

After the cutting of the ring-cake, which was at the con- 
clusion of the feast, the table was cleared of all except the 
decorations and candles, and a large dish filled with burning 
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alcohol and salt brought in and placed in the center. Seated 
around this ghostly fire, all other lights except the candles 
having been extinguished, the guests told ghost stories rig- 
marole fashion; that is, some one started the story, stopped 
short at its most exciting point, and let his neighbor continue 
it and so on. Each guest tried to make his part as charac- 
teristic as possible of the ghost whom he was impersonating. 

Hide a ring, a thimble and a penny in the room. To the one 
who finds the ring speedy marriage is assured; the thimble 
denotes a life of single blessedness ; the penny promises wealth. 
Have one of the young ladies who knows a little palmistry 
be the witch of the evening. A short bright-hued skirt, a gay 
plaid shawl crossed over her shoulders, a scarf bound about 
her head, will make a very striking costume, and, with the aid 
of a little paint and powder, quite an effective disguise. If 
she is enough acquainted with the guests to give some per- 
sonal history she can produce some very "telling" fortunes. 



THE INNOCENT PARTY. 



Invitations read as follows: 

Were you ever at an Innocent Party? 

If not, come to one at the home of 

Floy E. S prague, 

February 14th, 1001. 

You are to feed the innocent goose 

play the innocent games 

eat the innocent refreshments and 

have an innocent time, 

It zvill cost you ten cents to see the innocent fun. 

Curtain aff one corner of the room, behind this curtain have 
the innocent goose (goose may be one of your brightest young 
men). Every one who feeds the innocent goose with a nickel, 
will receive a gift in the shape of a small toy. On one door 
put up a sign "Innocent School." After the crowd gathers 
five boys and five girls are sent to school. The first thing they 
do must be to raise their right hand and promise they will 
not tell the rest what they did at school. Then they are made 
to sit on the floor, and a cap and bib tied on each scholar. 
Then they are told they are very innocent, and their first 
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lesson was to learn to stand alone. They must get up without 
touching their hands to anything. The second lesson is to 
teach them to walk. They must then walk the length of 
the room on a seam in the carpet. For the third lesson, 
needles and thread are put on the table, and the pupils are told 
to thread six needles in five minutes. For the fourth lesson ten 
small china dolls are placed on the table with pieces of 
cloth and several pairs of scissors, and they are told to dress a 
doll in five minutes, using the needles they have threaded. 
This will cause a great deal of fun, as young men do not as 
a rule know much about dressing dolls. The fifth and last 
lesson is a test in spelling. A number of little cards, each 
with a letter on it, are placed on the table, and the pupils are 
told to make as many words as they can in five minutes. When 
this is done, they are told that they were innocent no longer, 
they were graduates from innocent school. They are then 
dismissed to make room for another class. They must keep 
their caps and bibs on the rest of the evening. 

The refreshments can be coffee, different kinds of cookies, 
and doughnuts. Cookies can be made in shapes of hearts. The 
supper can be charged ten cents. Each one who buys supper 
can be given a tissue paper heart with his fortune written on 
it. Guests can have their fortunes told by an amateur palm- 
ist. Pupils can keep the caps and bibs as souvenirs. 

FLOY E. SPRAGUE. 



INITIAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



Popular Bishop Phillips Brooks 

Fought Every Wine Frances E. Willard 

Serio-Comic • • Samuel Clemens 

Fearless Navigator Fridtjof Nansen 

Won England's Greatness W. E. Gladstone 

Little Misses' Admiration s Louisa M. Alcott 

Military Suitor Miles Standish 

Rollicking Bard Robert Burns 

United States General U. S. Grant 

Moral Light Martin Luther 

Eulogizes Antipodes Edwin Arnold 

Tamed Ambient Electricity Thomas A. Edison 

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13- A Cunning Delineator A. Conan Doyle 

14. Handles Christians Hall Caine 

.15. Rabid Iconoclast Robert Ingersoll 

16. Histrionic Interpreter Henry Irving 

17. Serpentine Belle Sarah Bernhardt 

18. Equality Benefits Edward Bellamy 

19. Just Mother's Boy James M. Barrie 

20. Frames Many Chronicles F. Marion Crawford 

21. Lord High Celestial Li Hung Chang 

22. Original Witty, Humorous Oliver Wendell Holmes 

23. Nipped Bourbonism Napoleon Bonaparte 

24. Surgeon, Writer, Metrician S. Weir, Mitchell 

25. Intelligent Zealot Israel Zangwill 

26. Collected Delectable Writings C. D. Warner 

27. Curiosity Depicter Charles Dickens 

28. Cuba's Benefactor Clara Barton 

29. Eminently Zealous Emile Zola 

30. Character Revealed Charles Reade 

31. Caused Revolutionary Discussion Charles R. Darwin 

32. Joyous Lark Jenny Lind 

.33. Fearless Nurse Florence Nightingale 

34. Conspicuous Senator Charles Sumner 

35. Ever Frolicksome Eugene Field 

36. Suffrage Brings Advantages Susan B. Anthony 

37. Pens Lyrical Dialect Paul Lawrence Dunbar 

38. Always Loyal Abraham Lincoln 

39. Great Deed George Dewey 

40. Won Recent Surrender W. R. Shafter 



INDOOR LAWN PARTY. 



Our social committee, of which I was then chairman, want- 
ed very much to have a lawn party; but the season for such 
things was quite over, as the evenings were too cool. How- 
ever, a bright idea occurred to one of our number, and we 
decided to have an indoor lawn party. 

The Saturday afternoon before it was to take place, four 
of the committee took a team, went out into the woods, and 
secured a lot of pine boughs, autumn leaves, etc., and Mon- 
day evening, which was the evening before it occurred, we 
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increased our force of workers, and went to the vestry to 
turn it into an outdoor scene as much as possible. We 
trimmed the chandeliers, posts, and every available spot with 
boughs, strung Japanese lanterns all across the room, made 
a beautiful bower in one corner for the orchestra, of which 
we had three pieces, a piano, a violin, and a cornet. In the 
opposite corner of the room we had a canvas tent where for- 
tunes were told at five cents each (by palmistry) by one of 
our young lady gypsies. Hammocks were swung from the 
large stone posts and a standing double swing was placed on 
one side of the room, where the young people enjoyed them- 
selves hugely. 

Small tables were put into odd corners of the room, 
where ice cream and cake were served by ten young ladies 
in pretty summer costumes. Lemonade was served from an 
old well, which was a large square box or packing case, cov- 
ered with canvas, painted to represent a stone wall. To this 
we attached a well-sweep made from a branch of a tree, tied 
on a large new tin pail, and served the lemonade in small 
glasses at two cents a glass. During the evening we had a 
male quartette gather around the well and sing "The Old 
Oaken Bucket," and other selections. The orchestra played 
the whole evening with very short intermissions. On one side 
of the room was arranged an artistic corner where peanuts 
were sold at the usual price of five cents a bag. 



INDIAN DINNER. 



For table decoration a skin should be placed over table 
cloth through the center table and upon it an Indian basket 
filled with any red or yellow common flowers, such as mari- 
golds, nasturtiums (red and yellow), better still the wild 
flowers, red or yellow. 

The menu card and name card of stiff ecru paper, have In- 
dian decorations in brilliant red, green and orange; the can- 
dles are also striped in the same vivid colors and the candle 
holders are made of corn husks. The canoe, designed for the 
entree, which is the chicken, is made of heavy brown paper. 

MENU. 

INDIAN DINNER. 

Squaw Soup 
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(Bouillon) 
Wigwam Croquettes 

(Fish) 
Chicken a la Canoe 
Saddle of Mutton 
Choctaw Peas Apache Gravy 

Arrowhead Potatoes 
Calumet Squabs 
Pappoose Rolls Wickiup Salad 

(Romain) 
Prune Sioux 
(Feather Cream) 
Hiawatha Cakes Indian Punch 

Grasshopper Cheese Tomahawk Coffee 

Fire Water 
Saddle of Lamb 
(Roast) 
Apache Gravy Choctaw Peas 

Arrowhead Potatoes 
The gravy made from drippings of lamb. 
Peas just boiled and seasoned to taste. 
Potatoes cut in arrowheads and fried in basket. 



INAUGURATION DAY LUNCH. 



Post Office Soup 
The Army 
The Navy Small Shot 

Agricultural Salad 
Cabinet Pudding 
Ices Philippine Cake 

Coffee 
The guests at this luncheon are to represent the Vice Presi- 
dent and the eight members of the Cabinet, but if the hostess 
wishes to entertain a larger number, she can introduce one or 
two of the foreign Ambassadors. Give to each guest, as she 
arrives, a card bearing the title of one of the Cabinet, as the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and, if necessary the 
English Ambassador. While waiting for luncheon, each one 
must guess the name of the man she represents, in order to 
know her place at the table where only the proper names, not 
the titles, will be used. 

President McKinley's favorite flowers, pink carnations, will, 
of course, be those used for all decorations. Have a large 
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bowl in the center of the table, and at each corner of this lay on 
the cloth as a doily a spread eagle cut from gilt paper for which 
can be taken from a revenue flag a ten dollar gold piece. Make 
the distance from tip to tip of the wings about twelve inches, 
and from the head to the tail seven inches. Stand on the eagle 
white and gold glass dishes of olives, nuts, and pink candies. 

From the chandelier to the corners of the table have sound 
money festoons, which are made by cutting out of gilt paper a 
number of disks the size of a twenty-five cent piece. Paste 
these together in pairs, first laying between them a long 
thread which connects them through the middle and forms a 
chain. 

For favors have cards of water-color paper painted around 
the edges with a festoon of pink ribbon, in which, at intervals, 
are knotted scrolls and documentary envelopes upon which are 
printed some of the principles of the Republican party, such as 
"The Monroe doctrine reaffirmed," "Reduction of war taxes," 
"Allegiance to the gold standard," etc. At the top of each 
card write the name of one of the Cabinet, as Mr. Hay, Mr. 
Long ; write also a card for the vice president, who will occupy 
the place opposite Mr. McKinley — the hostess. 

In the center of the card will be the menu. 

A clear soup, with noodles for letters, fills the reqiure- 
ments of the Post Office. The second course is creamed sweet- 
breads served in small paper boxes, which stand upon large 
pilot crackers, or, in army language, "hard tack." A sheet 
of paper folded double like an army tent, rests upon the crack- 
ers, covering the box; wooden toothpicks stuck through the 
sides of the tent into the paper box will prevent the former 
from slipping out of place, and can easily be removed after 
serving. On the outside of the tents paint in large, clear let- 
ters U. S. A. The crackers are to be eaten with the sweet- 
breads. 

The navy is represented by having the chicken croquettes 
formed in the shape of a ship, flat, and having one end pointed, 
the other somewhat rounding. From a druggist get two or 
three straws, such as are used for soda water, cut them into 
short lengths, and just before serving stand two or three in 
each croquette to represent smoke stacks. If these straws can- 
not be obtained, toothpick masts with paper sails will be quite 
as effective. In that case paint names of the various warships 
upon the sails. The croquettes should be served with green 
peas — small shot — and scalloped potatoes. 

Agricultural or vegetable salad served in beets, makes a 
most attractive looking dish. Beets of medium and uniform 



size are first boiled until tender, then peeled and placed on the 
ice. When cold cut off a slice at the bottom, so they will stand 
firm, scoop out the insides, leaving only thin walls. For the 
filling use peas and apples, celery and beets, cut into small 
pieces, and mixed well with mayonnaise ; fill the beets serving 
them on lettuce leaves. The cabinet pudding is that which 
is to be found in any cook book baked in individual forms, and 
served with foamy sauce. 

The ices are in the form of horseshoes for good luck, and 
with them are the Philippine cakes. These are small cakes 
having in the center of each a tiny black china doll, two of 
which can be purchased for a cent at any toy shop. These are 
put in after the cake is baked and before icing, leaving them 
just far enough out to show the arms. 

The "coffee which makes the politician wise," may be 
served at the table or after returning to the parlor. 



JACK-O'-LANTERN PARTY. 



The little guests at this particular party were invited from 
three o'clock until seven, and when they arrived they found 
the rooms were darkened. The lamps had yellow shades, 
and as such an occasion would not be complete without 
pumpkin Jack-o'-lanterns, there were 

"Pumpkins large and pumpkins small, 
Pumpkins short and pumpkins tall, 
Pumpkins yellow and pumpkins green, 
Pumpkins every where are seen." 
They hung in every nook and corner. Even the jardinieres 
filled with flowers were made of them. Wood was crackling 
and blazing in the large fireplace, as if anxious to do its part 
to make every one happy, and hanging from the chandelier was 
a branch of evergreen, with nuts suspended in such a fashion 
that they readily fell to the floor when given a slight shake. 
Before this was done, however, each child was given a paper 
bag to hold the nuts, which tumbled in all directions. Then 
a huge pasteboard pumpkin covered with yellow crinkled paper 
was brought in. I do not know what else it was made of; 
I only know that it looked like a real pumpkin. Bright-col- 
ored ribbons hung over the sides, and when the small boys 
and girls took turns in pulling them, out came all sorts of 
comical little toys and pretty knicknacks. 
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Before supper was announced the children were given 
French snappers in fringed paper, in which they found either 
a gray cap or apron. After putting them on they marched 
around the parlors, out into the hall and into the dining- 
room; while the mother of the little girl who had planned 
this delightful Hallowe'en party played a marching tune for 
them. 

The greatest surprise of all awaited them in the dining 
room, for the walls were covered with large branches of 
evergreens, making it seem like "real woods ;" not a chair 
was in the room; the little ones were invited to seat them- 
selves on soft cushions placed on the floor, in true picnic 
style, and they had the j oiliest time eating their picnic supper 
from the yellowest of yellow gourds, which had been hol- 
lowed out, lined with Japanese napkins, and filled with just 
the things children like best. On top of each one was an 
apple — or at least they thought it was, until taking it in their 
hands, when it proved to be a bonbon box filled with delicious 
nut candy. Then there were dainty sandwiches, pop corn 
balls and salad in orange baskets. But better than these were 
the gingerbread animals; these were so natural looking that 
the little ones knew right away which animals were repre- 
sented. 

After supper they played games until seven, when they 
went home, laden with their bags of nuts and toys and sou- 
venir lanterns. 



LITERARY JOURNEY. 



Mrs. C. A. Slayton has arranged a "literary journey" as- 
follows : 

A (Edward Eggleston) set out (Blanche 

Howard) to seek his fortune in the (Susan War- 
ner) Unlike many travelers, this (Richard- 
Harding Davis) had plenty of (Charles Reade) 

; so none dispute his (Gilbert Parker) 

His great ambition was to serve (F. Marion Craw- 
ford) So he went direct to London and asked 

for (George Ebers) with his majesty. A page 

called (Rudyard Kipling) came out and gave 

him some (Robert Grant) (Mary Johnston) 

to refresh him, and then took him to (Charles. 

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Dickens) and introduced him to (Charles Felton 

Pidgin) of (Ditto) Soon he 

caught sight of some curiosities (Bertha Runkle) 

(Harold McGrath) (Stephen Crane) 

(Wilkie Collins) (Amelia Barr) 

etc. These amused him until the king sent for him. (Charles 

Reade) he thought, and what would I want? 

(Jane Austin) So he delivered his message and 

(Edward Bellamy) retired. Next he set out for 

(Hall Caine) where he wished to meet (S. R. 

Crockett) (J. M. Barrie) and 

(Ralph Connor) while taking (Augustus J. C. 

Hare) He also wished to hear (F. Marion 

Crawford) and (Henry Sienkiewicz) 

He lodged at (Frank R. Stockton) but was only 

there a few days when a man known as (Marie Corelli) 
who had come for the express purpose of under- 
taking (Charles Frederic Goss) ask his aid in 

this (W. D. Howells) He went with him, but 

(Hall Caine) was turned aside from nis purpose 

by meeting (Maurice Thompson) who proved to 

be Mary C. Crowley) Then began (Mrs. H. B. 

Stowe) which he thought did not need his assist- 
ance in bringing to (Winston Churchill) So he 

went to Scotland, where (Ian Maclaren) he read 

tales of (G. A. Henty) (Alfred Ollivant) 

and (Walter Scott) Getting no 

word from the king, whether he was to serve as his (Edna 

Lyall) he determined to make a (Jules Verne) 

and then return return to his own fireside and 

(Thomas Hardy) write his (Washington Irving) 

He would call it (Jerome K. Jerome) 

or (Ik Marvel) This you would 

not call (Theodore Roosevelt) but pleasant occu- 
pation for (Booth Tarkington) and he was sure 

it would please (Besant and Rice) and bring him 

(Mary E. Wilkins) with which he would pur- 
chase (Nathaniel Hawthorne) though he never 

wished to make money (Henry J. Van Dyke) 

So ends the story of a (F. Hopkinson Smith) 

After each author's name place the title of one of his books. 
The titles will tell a story and must be the same as those 
selected by Mrs. Slayton. 



LITERARY CONTEST. 



Have small tables numbered and arranged to seat four or 
six persons. Select for each table a judge, who will distribute 
the cards and blanks. These judges hold the keys to the con- 
tests, so that they may be able to mark the players correctly. 

Give each player a card attached to a piece of baby ribbon 
that may be fastened in the buttonhole. Upon these cards the 
number of points gained may be written, punched with a ticket 
punch, or marked with fancy wafers of different colors. The 
cards must be numbered to correspond with the tables, and as 
many number one cards provided as there are players at table 
number one, and so on. 

When the players are seated at the tables which correspond 
in number with the number upon their cards let the judges 
distribute blank paper and pencils, also several copies of the 
questions comprised in the contests, among the players at their 
respective tables. 

A different contest must be prepared for each one of the 
tables. 

When everything is ready the hostess of the evening should 
tap a bell for "silence," and announce that ten minutes will be 
given for each contest; that at the first tap of the bell all must 
begin to write their answers out, numbering them according 
to the numbers on the questions; at the second tap the judges 
are to collect the answers at their respective tables and mark 
on each player's card the number of points made. The system 
of marking is as follows : Each player is given as many marks 
as he has answered questions correctly, and the totals are 
summed up at the end of the game. 

During the progress of the game there must be no talking 
nor any questions asked. At the third tap of the bell the 
players at table number one go to table number two, and so on, 
those at the last table moving up to table number one. This 
progression continues until all the players have had their op- 
portunity to answer all the questions in the contests. At each 
change blank paper is distributed, and a bell rung as in the 
first instance. 

When the round has been completed the points are counted 
and the prizes awarded. "Bright Ideas" makes an excel- 
lent first prize; a box of candy in the shape of a book, a sec- 
ond; and a "Primer," a third. 

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The charming heroine, my friends, 

Was known as ("Alice of Old Vincennes"). 

She lived when Indians were a power, 

And not — "When Knighthood was in Flower"). 

And in those past times, quaint and olden, 

She fell in love with ("Eben Holden"). 

Then while her friends began to marvel 

A rival came, named ("Richard Carvel"). 

Each rival his keen sword did draw, 

And heeded not ("The Reign of Law"). 

They slew each other, alas ! and then 

She married a man named ("Crittenden"). 

The merry bells rang loud in the steeple 

And loudly cheered — ("The Voice of the People"). 

The two rode away on a double bike 

And lived in — ("Stringtown on the Pike"). 

They did not gossip with each neighbor, 

But each one did — ("The Portion of Labor"). 

Write out the following quotations correctly 

1. Beauty is always a thing of joy. 

2. Let us therefore get up and go to work. 

3. The man who steals my pocketbook gets very little. 

4. Every one who knows you, loves you. 

5. Do pretty and you'll be pretty. 

6. God keeps the shorn lamb from the wind. 

KEY. 

1. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. 

2. Let us then be up and doing. 

3. Who steals my purse steals trash. 

4. None knew thee but to love thee. 

5. Handsome is that handsome does. 

6. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 
Heroes and Heroines — in what books do they figure f 

1. John Ridd. "Lorna Doone." 

2. Agnes Wakefield. "David Copperfield." 

3. Pomona. . "Rudder Grange." 

KEY. 

4. Dorothea Brooke. "Middlemarch." 

5. Dorothy Manners. "Richard Carvel." 

6. Glory Quayle. "The Christian." 
Fill blank spaces zvith titles of popular novels 

In the little village of S o— t— P , F— f t— 

M C , lived the H— . P S . With him resided 

his lovely ward, J— M— . She was A— O— F— G — , and 
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knew little of T — W , W W . She had, however, 

A P o — B E — and G — E — . Among her admirers 

were R C , J H , and T— L M . 

KEY. 

In the little village of "Stringtown on the Pike," "Far from 
the Maddening Crowd," lived the "Hon. Peter Sterling." With 
him resided his lovely ward, "Janice Meredith." She was 
"An Old-Fashioned Girl," and knew little of "The Wide, Wide 
World." She had, however, "A Pair of Blue Eyes" and "Great 
Expectations." Among her admirers were "Richard Carvel," 
"John Halifax," and "The Little Minister." 

Synonyms of names of literary men 
i. Severe. 4. Jeweler. 

2. Strong. 5. Crossing-place. 

3. Sombre. 6. Rapid. 

KEY. 

Sterne. Goldsmith. 

Hardy. Ford. 

Black. Swift. 

The answers to these questions are the names of authors 

1. When we leave here we go to our what? 

2. What dies only with life? 

3. What does a maiden's heart crave ? 

4. What does an angry person often raise? 

5. What should all literary people do? 

6. If a young man would win what should he do ? 

KEY. 

Holmes. Caine. 

Hope. Reade. 

Lover. Sue. 

Same as above 

The most cheerful author — Samuel Smiles. 
The noisiest author — Howells. 
The tallest author — Longfellow. 
The most flowery author. — Hawthorne. 
The holiest author — Pope. 
The happiest man — Gay. 
The most amusing author — Thomas Tickell. 
The most fiery author — Burns. 
The most talkative author — Chatterton. 
The most distressed author — Akenside. 
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LITERARY POEM OF POEMS. 



Mrs. H. A. Deming of San Francisco, is said to have oc- 
cupied a year in hunting up and fitting together the following 
thirty-eight lines from thirty-eight English poets. The names 
of the authors are given below : 

I — Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 

2 — Life's a short summer, man a flower. 

3 — Bv turns we catch the vital breath, and die, 

4 — The cradle and the tomb, alas ! so nigh. 

S — To be is better far than not to be, 

6 — 'Though all man's life may seem a tragedy; 

7 — But light cares speak when mighty cares are dumb, 

8 — The bottom is but shallow whence they come. 

9 — Your fate is but the common fate of all ; 
io — Unmingled joys here to no man befall. 
ii — Nature to each allots his proper sphere, 
12 — Fortune makes folly her peculiar care; 
13 — Custom does often reason overrule, 
14 — And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. 
15 — Live well, how long or short, permit to heaven, 
16 — They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. 
17 — Sin may be clasped so close we can not see its face — 
18 — Vile intercourse where virtue has not place; 
19 — Then keep each passion down, however dear ; 
20 — Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear; 
21 — Her sensual snares, let faithless pleasure lay 
22 — With craft and skill to ruin and betray; 
23 — Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. 
24 — We masters grow of all that we despise. 
25 — Oh, then renounce that impious self-esteem ; 
26 — Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. 
27 — Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave, 
28 — The path of glory leads but to the grave. 
2Q — What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat, 
30 — Only destructive to the brave and great. 
31 — What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? 
32 — The way to bliss lies not on beds of down. 
33 — How long we live, not years, but actions tell ; 
34 — That man lives twice who lives the first life well. 
35 — Make, then, while yet ye may, your God your friend, 
36 — Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend. 
37 — The trust that's given guard, and to yourself be just; 
38 — For, live we how we can, yet die we must. 
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i, Young ; 2, Doctor Johnson ; 3, Pope ; 4, Prior ; 5, Sewell ; 
6, Spenser ; 7, Daniel ; 8, Sir Walter Raleigh ; 9, Longfellow ; 
10, Southwell; II, Congreve; 12, Churchill; 13, Rochester; 
14, Armstrong; 15, Milton; 16, Baily; 17, Trench; 18, Somer- 
ville; 19, Thomson; 20, Byron; 21, Smollett; 22, Crabbe; 23, 
Massinger; 24, Crowley; 25, Beattie; 26, Cowper; 27, Sir 
Walter Davenant; 28, Gray; 29, Willis; 30, Addison; 31, 
Dryden; 32, Francis Quarles; 33, Watkins ; 34, Herrick; 35, 
William Mason; 36, Hill; 37, Dana; 38 Shakespeare. 



MUSICAL EVENING. 



We arranged the chairs in the lecture-room in groups of 
eight, and as each guest entered he received a long, narrow 
strip of pasteboard, bearing a portion of some familiar song, 
both words and music. Each card bore a number, and the 
eight whose cards were numbered alike were instructed to get 
together and practise to sing a verse formed by the union of 
their eight cards. A bell called them to order, judges were ap- 
pointed, and each group sang its song, a pianist accompanying 
them. While the judges were preparing their verdict, a short 
musical programme was rendered. A bouquet of flowers was 
presented to the group whose musical effort was considered the 
best. On examination the bouquet was found to consist of 
eight small buttonhole bouquets, one for each member of the 
group. 



MUSICAL TERMS ILLUSTRATED. 



Have some on play these songs : 

"Star Spangled Banner," "Marching through Georgia," 
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," "Battle Hymn of the Re- 
public," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "Hail, Columbia," "Home, 
Sweet Home," "Yankee Doodle," "When Johnnie Comes 
Marching Home Again," "Auld Lang Syne," "America." No 
titles are announced, but the guests are asked to guess the 
names and write them in order upon slips of paper. 
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Following each piece of music some musical term is illus- 
trated. These terms, with the means employed to illustrate 
them, are as follows : "time," some one held a small clock, 
"measure," a yard stick; "key," a door-key; "flats," two flat- 
irons ; "lines," a pair of nursery lines ; "sharps," a carving 
set ; "tie," a gentleman's tie ; "bars," small clothes-bars ; "staff," 
a cane; "a whole note," a dollar; "a half note," a half dollar; 
"a quarter note," a silver quarter. 



MUSICIANS BURIED. 



i. There were verd isles and tender blue of summer skies. 

2. Maud Muller raked the hay, deny it not, O Judge. 

3. The bell in ivy tower rings knell of passing day. 

4. I arrive, King, most gracious sovereign. 

5. She still wears her old smile — the sweet, modest 
maiden. 

6. The mother of Charlie Ross in idle dreams still clasps 
him. 

7. We berate our neighbors soundly, but excuse ourselves. 

8. How famous the cherub in ideal art. 

9. There will be no confab tonight. 

10. If he asks your hand Eliza, do not say nay. 

11. Be brief; Lo, towards life's setting sun, man hastens. 

12. You've dropped a beet — ho, vender, heigh. 

13. The dog spies a cat, and it makes his tail wag nervously. 

14. A beau, berrying, needs a basket and a sweetheart. 

15. My chop I never eat with peas. 

16. You have found an egg, lucky boy. 

17. Liz still improves from day to day. 

18. Whoever else leaves, the Co. stays in most firms. 

19. Cattle enjoy herbal feeding grounds. 

20. I do not care a sou, Sarah, whether you will, or not. 

ANSWERS TO THE BURIED MUSICIANS. 

i. Verdi. 

2. Hayden. 

3. Bellini. 

4. Rive King. 

5. Herold. 

6. Rossini. 

7. Weber. 

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8. 


Cherubini. 


9- 


Abt. 


10. 


Handel. 


11. 


Flotow. 


12. 


Beethoven. 


13. 


Wagner. 


14. 


Auber. 



IS- Chopin. 18. Costa. 

16. Gluck. 19. Balfe. 

17. Lizst. 20. Sousa. 

Note: — The letters composing the names of the sought-for 
musicians come successively together, but the name may begin 
and end in different words. Jessie H. Brown, Berea, O. 



MUSICAL ROMANCE. 



The young hostess announced that a love story of the Civil 
War would be related in musical numbers, and to the one 
who should best interpret them a prize should be awarded. 
All were provided with cards and pencils and a young woman 
seated herself at the piano. The hostess then asked "What 
was the heroine called?" Whereupon the familiar notes of 
"Sweet Marie" were heard, and it began to be understood that 
the names of popular airs — given with much spirit by the 
pianist — would furnish the answers to the questions pro- 
pounded, to be recorded upon the cards. The story progressed 
thus :— 

What was the hero's name? "Robin Adair." 
Where was he born? "Dixie." 
Where was she born? "On the Suwanee River." 
Where did they meet ? "Comin' thro' the rye." 
At what time of day was it? "Just as the sun went down." 
When did he propose? "After the ball was over." 
What did he say? "Only one girl in this world for me." 
What did she say? "I'll leave my happy home for you." 
What did he then bid her? "A soldier's farewell." 
What did the band play? "The girl I left behind me." 
Where did he go? "Georgia." 

Where did he spend that night? "Tenting on the old 
camp-ground." 

What did the band play when he came home? "When 
Johnny comes marching home." 

Where were they married? "Old Kentucky home." 
Who were the bridesmaids? "Two little girls in blue." 
Who furnished the music? "Whistling Rufus." 
Who furnished the wedding feast? "Rosie O'Grady." * 
Where did they make their home? "On the banks of the 
Wabash." 

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What was their motto? "Home, sweet home." 
Where did they always remain? "America." 
The music was a new feature, and the fact that the airs 
were so well known made it the more enjoyable. The ad- 
vantage of the winner being so slight, the pleasure of success 
was the more general. 

After supper the hostess said that if they were not tired 
of guessing she had another game to propose — a sort of for- 
tune-teller which should give each man present the name that 
his future wife should bear. It was for them to discover it. 
The first name was told to make the subject clear — which was 
that a chemist's wife should be named "Ann Eliza" ; a civil 
engineer's, "Bridget"; a gambler's, "Betty"; a humorist's, 
"Sally" ; a clergyman's, "Marie" ; a shoemaker's, "Peggy" ; 
sexton's, "Belle"; porter's, "Carrie"; dancing-master's, 
"Grace"; milliner's, "Hattie"; gardener's, "Flora"; judge's, 
"Justine"; pugulist's, "Mamie"; pianist's, "Octavia"; life- 
saver's, "Caroline"; upholsterer's, "Sophy"; astronomer's, 
"Stella"; doctor's, "Patience"; fisherman's, "Netty"; gasman's, 
"Meta"; marksman's, "Navy." 



MEDICAL SOCIAL. 



• Procure the small glass vials used by homoeopathic physi- 
cians. On the outside of each one paste a narrow slip, on 
which is written the name of some trouble for which the Bible 
offers a remedy. On another slip write the Bible verse which 
gives the cure. Roll it up, and run a thread through it which 
is fastened to the cork. Here are some suggestions : Dis- 
couragement, Ps. 42:5; Sadness, Ps. 16:11; Pain, Rev. 21:4; 
Doubt, Despair, Anger, Impatience, Laziness, Unruly tongue, 
Lonliness, Sleeplessness, Weakness, Pride, Bitterness, Covel- 
ousness. The corresponding Bible references will easily be 
found by using a concordance. Have one corner of the room 
arranged for a drug store. Each person will receive from the 
"store" one bottle and the cork belonging to a different bottle. 
He must hunt till he has discovered the "medicine" (cork and 
paper) belonging to his own bottle, and has delivered the 
cork he holds to the proper bottle. Decorate with mottoes, 
such as: "Is there no balm in Israel, is there no physician 
there?" Have papers read on the care of the body and the 
care of the soul, and also Bible readings on miracles of 
healing. 

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MEDICAL TRUNK. 



"In my wonderful trunk I have two very tall tropical 
trees, palms ; something used by an artist, palette (palate) ; 
weapons of war, arms ; many wild animals, and two domestic 
ones, hares (hairs), calves; something worn by a king, 
crown; a bright garden flower, tulips (two lips); a.musical 
instrument, drum; two fish and many shell fish, soles, muscles; 
branches of trees, limbs ; a student, pupil ; something used in 
ship-building, ribs; whips without handles, lashes; a produc- 
tion of a spruce-tree, gum; something used by carpenters, 
nails ; a part of a clock, hands ; a large wooden box, chest ; 
part of a wagon, tongue; something grown on a cornstalk, 
ears ; a part of a shoe, heel ; ten Spanish gentlemen, ten dons 
(tendons) ; part of a nail, head; weather cocks, vanes (veins) ; 
two kitchen utensils, pans (knee) ; part of a knife, blade 
(shoulder) ; edge of a saw, teeth; terms used in voting, ayes 
and noes (eyes and nose) ; covering of an apple, skin; a cer- 
tain measure, feet; something seen in accidents, blood; a 
part of a house, roof (of the mouth); covers to pails, lids; 
something used in upholstering, tow (toe) ; part of a stove- 
pipe, elbow ; a part of a table, legs ; something served with 
ice cream, lady fingers ; the masculine of doe, hart (heart) ; 
part of a river, mouth; something used by negro minstrels, 
bones ; best part of a goese, back ; part of a ship, side ; a 
narrow strip of land, neck; hotel steps, inn steps (insteps). 



MYSTICAL PARTY. 



The Y. W. C. T. U. 
Has kindly invited you 
To the Mystery Reception, 
Strange and weird beyond conception. 
At seven-thirty o'clock night fall 
They will welcome one and all ; 
With solemn rites and grewsome sights, 
We'll meet you all on Monday night. 
Street and number. 
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All those who take part in this should arrive early and 
have everything in shape when the guests arrive. First each 
one should wrap a white sheet all over them and wear a 
small white mask. Have all the lights turned low or have 
candles and on the gas jets have red paper shades so it will 
cast a red, gloomy light over everything. Have each one 
who takes part stand like statues all about the house in cor- 
ners and in dark places. As the guests arrive have one of 
the white clothed figures meet them at the door silently and 
not speak a word, but motion them to take off their wraps, 
and then to enter the next room. If possible get some bones 
from a medical college and have skulls and cross bones all 
about the room. In one dark room, should be skulls and 
pumpkins with faces cut in them with candles inside. Do not 
have any other light in this room. When the guests go into 
this room have small cakes of ice and let them feel of them 
in the dark. All this time the statues should be quiet and 
until all the company has arrived. Then seat all the statues 
at a large table with a small candle in the center or a 
dish of burning alcohol, and have each one tell a weird story. 
Have a witch in a dark room with a dish of burning alcohol, 
and have one at a time go in and have their fortunes told. 
Tricks of different kinds can be played on the guests. 

The program for the mysterious company consists of a 
number of contests in which eye-sight plays second fiddle to 
the sense of touch. 

First of all the hostess produces a book printed in the 
raised lettering for the blind and suggests that each guest 
read ten lines from it. This is no easy matter. To the 
contestant reading the ten lines correctly in the shortest 
time a prize is awarded. 

For the second trial of skill the guests may gather around 
a circular table. Beneath the table place a covered box or 
basket containing the most variously assorted small articles 
that it is possible to secure upon the spur of the moment, 
the more unexpected the better. No player must see the arti- 
cles placed in the basket. When all is in readiness the 
objects are dipped from the basket and passed rapidly from 
hand to hand below the table, ending in the hands of the 
hostess and by her placed in an empty bag provided for the 
purpose. 

Distribute pencils and ask the guests to write down as many 
of the objects passed under the table as they can remember. 
A prize should be provided for the person who hands in the 
fullest list of the objects. 

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MEASURING PARTY. 



Programs are to read as follows : 

Measuring party given by 

East End Council Y. W. C. T. U. 

at the home of the President, 

Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott, . . 

Monday evening, Oct. 29th, 1900. 

A measuring party we give for you, 

'Tis something novel as well as new. 

The invitation is in the sack, 

For use in bringing or sending back, 

Three cents for every foot you're tall, 

Measure yourself against the wall. 

An extra cent for each inch you'll give, 

And thereby show how high you live. 

With music and song, recitation and pleasure, 

We will meet one and all, at our party of measure. 

Given on same plan as birthday party, only observe next 
to last line of this party. Plenty of fun can be had by meas- 
uring feet. A fine for the gentleman with largest feet and a 
prize for lady with the smallest feet. Also measure and 
charge a cent an inch for noses. Lots of fun can be had at 
this. 



MOTHER GOOSE GAME. 



During the evening a slip of paper is handed to each guest 
with the name of one of the Mother Goose characters upon 
it. The hostess retains a list of these, and calls each, in 
turn, to repeat within the space of one minute the familiar 
verse relative to this character. Failing to do this a forfeit 
must be paid. The one who is most prompt in responding 
correctly may receive as a pledge a goose-quill pen, and the 
one who fails a copy of "Mother Goose." Just before re- 
freshments are served the "Goose Drill" may be participated 
in to the time of a march, and the couples proceed to the 
refreshment room, where they are served to 



i. Shared by the walrus and No. I. — Oysters, 
carpenter. 

2. A King's dish. 

3. A Queen's lunch. 

4. Taffy's spoils. 

5. The golden eggs. 

6. "Old Woman's Broom." 

7. What the baker made. 

8. Sample of the pieman's 

ware. 

9. Jack-a-dandy's delight. 
10. What the ships brought. 

The numbered list of refreshments should be printed upon 
small cards, which may be retained as souvenirs of the occa- 
sion. The guests order what they choose. The key is retained 
by the hostess. 



No. 


2.- 


— Bird pie. 


No. 


3-- 


—Bread and honey. 


No. 


4- 


—Beef sandwiches. 


No. 


s-- 


—Egg sandwiches. 


No. 


6.- 


—Cheese-straws. 


No. 


7-- 


-Rolls. 


No. 


8.- 


—Washington cake-pie. 


No. 


9- 


—Plum cake. 


No. 


10.- 


—Apples and comfits. 



NEW YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT. 



Since the day and Sabbath-schools generally hold their 
festivals on Christmas, it may be preferable to hold the home 
festival on New Year's. 

A series of New Year's living tableaux is perhaps the easiest 
gotten up entertainment that could be given. These tableaux 
should be exhibited in the largest room procurable, and a 
curtain should be drawn in front of that portion of the room 
in which the tableaux are to be prepared and shown. 

If you wish to give each tableau the appearance of a pic- 
ture, prepare a large wooden frame in the shape of a picture 
frame. Cover the same with sheets of tissue paper or with 
any soft goods — white muslin or cheese cloth, for example. 
Let there be plenty of light to set off the tableaux. Have some 
one to tend the curtain. Let the manager behind the scene 
have a bell to inform him when it is to be drawn aside to dis- 
close each tableau. Those participating in the entertainment 
should avoid any flashy colors in their costumes; also the 
combination of colors which do not blend. 

Erect a platform in that part of the room where the ex- 
hibition is to be given, so that the scenes can be the better 
presented to the audience. Let those behind the curtain keep 
as quiet as possible, so that the audience may not learn from 
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their loud conversation the import of the tableaux soon to be 
shown. 

Here are a few tableaux which are suitable for New Year's. 
It is always preferable, however, to invent one's own: 



NEW YEAR'S GAMES. 



WATCHING THE OLD YEAR OUT. 

Let a boy and girl be dressed to resemble an elderly gentle- 
man and lady. The girl can wear a large-figured plain skirt, 
a black or white cap, a shoulder cape and old style apron. 
The boy can appear in the style of his grandsire, provided he 
can obtain suitable clothes. If he cannot, he will have to be 
content with his father's dressing gown and with such other 
necessary garments as he can procure. Both characters should 
wear spectacles. 

Let the stage represent an old style room. The frame for a 
fireplace can be made from pasteboard, painted red and checked 
off to give the appearance of being built of bricks, according 
to the ancient style. If you cannot borrow a pair of old- 
fashioned andirons, you can have them made out of wood 
and painted either black to resemble iron or yellow to repre- 
sent brass. Upon these andirons place two or three charred 
logs. It will not be necessary to represent fire, since the old 
couple are planning to have the fire die out with the old year. 
In front of the fireplace lay a braided or "hooked" rug, also 
two armchairs. Have the characters occupying these chairs, 
the grandame to be busy with her knitting, the grandsire with 
his forehead bowed over his cane in deep contemplation. A 
table containing a lighted candle and candle snuffers might be 
introduced into the scene. On the mantle have a clock show- 
ing the time to be within a few moments of twelve. Instruct 
the aged couple to occasionally glance up at the clock. As it 
strikes twelve, have them glance at it uninterruptedly. Then 
let the curtain fall. 

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THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW. 



Let the one to represent the Old Year to be dressed like 
Father Time. A loose home-made garment — one to resemble 
the ancient Roman toga, for example — could be thrown over 
his shoulders. He should be bent with age and should carry 
a scythe. This could be made from wood or heavy pasteboard, 
perhaps, or a real scythe might be used. 

Let the New Year be represented by a small child dressed 
in white. A white cashmere or flannel would be the most ap- 
propriate, the same having a snowy or wintry appearance. 



NEW YEAR'S PARTY. 



This is a favorite occasion for a party among young people. 
It should be a small party, not over twenty-four guests, and it 
will be the more enjoyable if informal and among those who 
are well acquainted with each other. 

There are as varied entertainments for such parties as for 
those at other seasons. A pretty idea is to confine the list 
to twelve young gentlemen and twelve young ladies. The 
hostess requests a couple to dress as nearly as possible in 
some way that will personate a particular month which she 
assigns them. 

Duck trousers, or a cotton necktie with a white vest, is as 
distinctive of summer for the young men, as shirt-waists, duck 
skirts, and lawn are for young women, but it will take some 
ingenuity to devise an effect that will mark a particular 
month. 

The guests should not assemble until nine o'clock. There 
should be a large clock conspicuously placed in the room, and 
if possible an^open fireplace, with bright fire on the hearth. 

The first part of the time should be taken up in guessing 
the months, the company gathering before the open fire in a 
circle. As fast as one month is decided upon, the one who 
personates it rises, makes his or her bow to the company, and 
recites at least four original lines pertaining to that month. 
The more ridiculous or witty they are, the better they will be 
appreciated. 

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After this comes the supper, which may be as elaborate or 
simple as desired, and then a promiscuous mixing of the 
months will cause some merriment. 

After the supper games until five minutes before twelve, 
when all should again assemble before the fire, and lights be 
turned down, and the door closed. One of the young men 
should have previously slipped from the room. 

Just as the clock is striking twelve, there is a knock at the 
door. Opening it reveals a young man dressed as a baby, in 
a long white dress tied about with a sash on which is lettered 
January ist, 1903. This can b • planned to cause shouts of 
merriment, as it will, if well done. 

Hand shakings and New Year's greetings follow, and the 
party is over. 



NEW YEAR'S SOCIAL. 



As the guests come in, each one is requested to sign his 
name in a note book, and to write underneath it a New Year's 
resolution. An entire page can be allowed for each one, so 
no one can know what his neighbor has written. Each guest 
should be given a card inscribed with an appropriate quota- 
tion, such as "Time and tide wait for no man." These cards 
are numbered. They are passed around the company, with 
the explanation that each guest is to amuse the company for 
the length of time it takes for the sand to run in a minute glass 
from one end to the other (Have a minute glass in room). 
One can recite a poem, another tell a story, and so on until 
every one has done their share for the amusement of others. 
After each one has done his part the hostess announces she 
will now do hers and proceeds to read each resolution that 
has been written in the book. The names of the writers being 
signed, it will cause much merriment. Nut shells set sailing 
in a basin of water, can be named. If they keep together, it 
is an indication that you would be married before the year 
dies, but if they separate, your fate is sealed for one year. 
Games of Telegram can be used. 
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NOVEL ICE FESTIVAL. 



To step from midsummer into winter was a surprise, when 
the admission ticket was dropped in the box at the door 
on the night of the festival and its erstwhile owner passed into 
the hall. Small tables stood by pine and cedar trees that were 
covered with alum icicles and sifted over with diamond dust. 
Here groups of friends ate their cream and cake together, 
served by snow spirits in white tarletan gowns that sparkled 
with diamond dust, or ice fays whose white costumes glittered 
with glass beads. On the stage, white canton flannel and 
diamond dust, heavy gray wrapping paper folded into rocks, 
trees and a rustic bridge made a realistic representation of a 
snow-clad landscape. The pleasing program consisted oi 
dainty dances by children dressed as snow-flakes, a pretty 
ball game played with snowballs, recitations and songs appro- 
priate to the winter season. Another novelty was a tree 
covered with raw cotton snowballs, with numbers attached. 
These were sold for twenty-five cents — each purchaser choos- 
ing a number — and contained the small fancy articles usually 
sold at fairs — pincushions, needlebooks, cups and saucers, etc. 
The windows were all screened and electric fans hidden by 
evergreens kept the hall from getting overheated. The festival 
was a great success. 



NOSE AND GOGGLE PARTY. 



To fun-loving people who enjoy the grotesque, great sport 
will be found in giving a Goggle and Nose Party. 

Here two objects will be gained: merriment and dis- 
guise. 

As guests arrive, each is given a black card, perforated, 
with ribbon run through, in order to wear the card around the 
neck, so that everybody can see it. 

The cards must have, on one side, a number by which each 
guest is known; on the other side, figures i, 2, 3, etc. (as 
many figures as there are guests), leaving space opposite each 
figure for name. In social conversation each guest is to guess 
who his or her entertainer is. If intimate friends, this may 
be done readily by familiarity with voice; but in most cases 
the identification will not be easy. 
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Each guest wears a false nose and goggles. The nose may- 
be purchased, or made by clever fingers of heavy cardboard 
covered with chamois. 

The noses and goggles must not be removed till after re- 
freshments, which may be simple or elaborate as the hostess 
may wish. As you make your guess, place the name opposite 
the number on your card, corresponding to the number of the 
person you are talking to; for instance, if you think you 
know No. 4, turn your card and write the name opposite No. 
4, etc. 



NUT SOCIAL. 



Invitations sent out as follows may draw a crowd: 
There will be a "nut" social given Monday evening at the 
home of Miss Brown, President of Y. W. C. T. U., at 8 
o'clock sharp. You are "nut" to come unless you bring one 
other person with you. You are "nut" to come late. You are 
"nut" expected to go away without having a good time. Wall 
flowers are "nut" allowed. You are "nut" expected to furnish 
entertainment for the social unless you are called upon. But 
look out that you are "nut" called upon. You will "nut" be 
allowed to sit around and criticise, but to help make things 
pleasant. You will "nut" be allowed to leave until you have 
helped to crack "nuts." Come early and help to guess "nut" 
conundrums'. Do "nut" go home until you are ready. 

ENTERTAINMENT FOR NUT SOCIAL. 

Before the guests arrive hide nuts all over the room in 
every nook and corner. At a given -signal have the guests 
search for them and the one finding the most can be given 
small prize. 

Take English walnuts, split and take out the kernel; write 
quotations on small slips of paper, cut in half, put one-half 
paper in one nut shell, the other half in another shell, stick 
together. During the evening give one-half the quotations 
to girls, the other half to boys, and then have them hunt for 
their partners, when each matched partners have refreshments 
together. Have nut conundrums guessed, which are given 
in this nut social, after which serve all kinds of mixed nuts. 



NUT CONUNDRUMS. 



1. What nut grows nearest the sea? (Beachnut.) 

2. What nut grows under the ground? (Peanut.) 

3. What nut is the color of a pretty girl's eyes? (Hazel- 
nut.) 

4. What nut is good for naughty boys? (Hickory.) 

5. What nut is like an oft told tale? (Chestnut.) 

6. What nut grows on the Amazon? (Brazil nut.) 

7. What nut is like a naughty boy when sister has a beau? 
(Pecan.) 

8. What nut is like a Chinaman's eyes? (Almond.) 

9. What is the favorite nut in Ohio? (Buckeye.) 

10. What nut is like a good Jersey cow? (Butternut.) 

11. What is the carpenter's favorite nut? (Walnut.) 

12. The nut the farmer cannot go to town without ? (Wag- 
on nut.) 



NOTED PEOPLE. 



Cut out pictures of noted men and women from newspapers 
and magazines, paste on white paper, number each one. Pro- 
vide guests with paper and pencil, have paper numbered with 
the same amount of numbers there are pictures. Each one 
is then to guess who the picture is to represent. A good idea 
is to have pictures pinned upon the wall, curtains, and in 
every convenient place about the rooms, as the guests will then 
be obliged to move about, and there will be no danger of 
wallflowers. After each one has been given plenty of time 
for guessing, the correct list can then be read aloud by one 
person, each guest passing their paper to their neighbor for 
correction. There can be a prize given for the one who has 
the most correct answers. In connection with this, the game 
of noted people can be played. Have small slips of paper 
with the name of noted people written on, and pin one on 
back of each guest, he to guess who he represents by questions 
put to him by other guests. This is great fun, and causes 
much merriment among the young people. As fast as he 
guesses who he is a new slip can be put on his back. Prize 
given one who guesses most names. 
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OLD-TIME SPELLING BEE. 



The fact that a spelling bee is to form part of the even- 
ing's entertainment need not be indicated upon the program, 
it being a part of the fun to catch people unawares. 

After the arrival of the guests the choice of a "teacher" and 
two leaders is effected by ballot. The two leaders then stand 
out at the end of the room opposite each other, and each 
chooses alternately one of the company at a time, to repre- 
sent his side, until all have taken their places in two lines. 

The teacher, who is supplied with a book, then gives out 
a word to the person at the end of the line to her right. If 
the word is correctly spelled the next word is given out to 
the person at the end of the opposite side to her left. If this 
person fails to spell this word correctly she must immediately 
leave the line, and the same word is put to number two on 
the opposite side. If the word is correctly spelled she is 
privileged to choose one person from the opposite line to step 
over to the foot of her own line. Another word is then given 
to the opposite opponent, and so on down the lines. It often 
happens that two equally proficient spellers areN pitted against 
each other for some time, when the contest becomes very 
exciting. 

LIMIT THE TIME OF THE BEST SPELLER. 

It is a good plan, lest the contest become wearisome, to lim- 
it the time for the last participant. If at the end of six min- 
utes the winner has not failed on any word given, he or she 
becomes director of the revels that follow, and must be im- 
plicitly obeyed for the rest of the evening. The first duty is 
to announce a "recess," and having been previously instructed 
he or she leads the way to an adjoining room, where upon 
a table in a pile lie boxes of various shapes and kinds, neatly 
tied, which are distributed among the young women. After 
which it is announced that each box contains a small school 
luncheon, and that a young man accompanies each. She then 
proceeds to distribute the young men as she has the boxes. 
Each young woman then shares her luncheon with her part- 
ner. Should the box contain an apple, a sandwich and a cake 
these must be halved. 

After "recess" follow games, or music, or recitations, as 
the winner of the contest wills. 
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"OLD-FASHIONED DINNER." 



i. A country in Asia Turkey 

2. A color and a letter Gravy 

3. Cape Cod fruit and impudence Cranberry Sauce 

4. A river in Italy, an Irish woman's beverage, and "the 

five little pigs that went to market" Potatoes 

5. A parent and cuttings Parsnips 

6. Reverse and small bites Turnips 

7. Time measures Beets 

8. An Indian wife and an interjection of silence. .. .Squash 

9. Well or badly brought up Bread 

10. A goat Butter 

11. A letter Tea 

12. A crowd of people in a small place Jam 

13. Mixed-up type Pic 

14. Two of a kind Pears 

15. A receptacle for fluids and a letter Candy 

16. A crow's call and a doctor's payment Coffee 

17. Ancient tales Chestnuts 

18. What I do to be heard Ice cream 



OWL SOCIAL. 



Invitations for owl social: 

Who, who, who-o-0-0 

is invited to the Owl Social? 

You, you, you-o-0-0 

And your friends. 

You are to bring "owl" your friends, and you will "owl" 
have a good time. "Owl" who come must help make the 
evening pass pleasantly, and treat the company "owl" right. 
You are "owl" invited to stay for refreshments. 

Note. — Any form of amusement can go with this social, as 
there are plenty in the book to choose from. 



ORANGE SOCIAL. 



In planning for an Orange Social use plenty of orange col- 
ored paper, and make the decorations very attractive. Make 
orange colored shades for gas or lamp globes, use orange 
colored paper napkins, make orange butterflies, and let those 
who serve on committee wear orange paper caps and orange 
colored ties. If possible use orange crepe paper for doilies 
and mats. Refreshments should consist of oranges, wafers 
tied with orange ribbon, and orangeade. (Orangeade is made 
same as lemonade, and is delicious). Orange sherbet can 
be served if committee desires it. Here is a good receipt for 
it : Orange Sherbert in Orange Cups. — -Make the cups by cut- 
ting a slice from the top of each orange and removing the pulp 
and juice to use for the sherbet. Cut each cup into points 
and set away on ice. At serving time place the cups upon 
pretty plates, garnished with green, and fill with orange sher- 
bet, pressing, through pastry bag and tube, upon each one, a 
star of whipped cream. Orange cake could be served. 

For entertainment the old nursery rhymes should be used. 
Have slips of paper with a line each of a rhyme such as 
"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe." Pass these 
slips to each guest and have them hunt up the ones whose 
rhyme matches theirs. There will be four for each group, 
and they will then proceed to draw a picture of what their 
rhyme represents. A prize can be given the best group, con- 
sisting of four very small colored babies lying on a bed of 
cotton in an orange shell. Orange shell can be cut in half 
and tied with orange ribbon. As there will be four to each 
group, the four babies can be given to each of the four. 

Miss Ida Davies. 



ORANGE PARTY. 



To emphasize the color scheme, the young hostess wore a 
becoming empire gown of orange-colored silk a and on her left 
shoulder was fastened a large rosette of orange-colored chif- 
fon. Each guest, upon arriving, was presented with a similar 
rosette to wear as a compliment to the occasion. 
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The dining-room was decorated with potted plants. Al- 
though it was an afternoon party, the blinds were drawn and 
the room lighted artificially. The electric lights were muffled 
in orange-colored cheese cloth, and produced a very charming 
effect. 

Over the table was spread a large square of orange satin 
overlaid with a Battenberg lunch cloth. On this stood the 
birthday cake, which had been baked in a fluted mold, then 
covered thickly with yellow icing, and was a very clever imi- 
tation of the luscious fruit it was intended to represent. The 
cake was surrounded by twelve small brass candlesticks, in 
which burned orange-colored tapers. At each end of the 
table was a small Battenberg square over satin. On each of 
these, resting in a bed of green leaves, was an orange of ab- 
normal size, fashioned of papier-mache, made in two sections, 
though so exactly united that the orange seemed intact. In 
these were the favors — small yellow bon-bon boxes filled with 
orange conserves and tied with baby ribbon. Small glass 
dishes, standing on yellow tissue paper doilies that were 
fringed on the edges, and filled with orange puffs, orange 
kisses and other home-made sweets, were placed here and 
there on the table, and gave it a very festive air. 

The refreshments proper consisted of: 

Frozen Custard in Orange Cups 

Orange Jelly Whipped Cream 

Small Cakes Orange Icing 

Orangeade. 

The birthday cake was cut by the hostess, and each maiden 
served to a slice. In the cake had been baked an orange seed. 
She who was so fortunate as to find this seed in her slice was 
presented with an orange spoon on which was graven the 
hostess's monogram, the date and year. 

Before leaving the table each guest was shown a small glass 
filled with orange seeds, and was allowed one guess as to the 
number it contained. The lucky guesser received a papier- 
mache jewel box fashioned to represent an orange. The 
"booby" prize was the tiniest orange to be found in the mar- 
ket. 



PEANUT PARTY. 



Invitations can be written and put inside of peanut shells 
and tied together or glued. Have committee prepare slips of 
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paper with funny sayings on and put in peanut shells, and 
each guest given one. Partners can be matched in this way. 
The peanut meat can be made into peanut taffy, which the 
receipt of will appear in this item. At the party have a pail 
of peanuts and have each one plunge his hand in and see how 
many he can carry in one hand, across the room, having for 
his own all he can obtain at one trial. Pile peanuts on a 
tray, and each, with a knife, see how many he can carry to a 
table in three minutes, using only a knife. 

The one who succeeds in carrying the largest number in 
three minutes can be given a prize of a peanut baby, and the 
most successful can be given two peanuts. 



PIE PARTY. 



Have each lady bring a different kind of pie and have every 
kind of pie made. The refreshments should consist entirely 
of pies and hot coffee. 

Have each gentlemen present write a receipt for the kind 
of pie eaten, also tell how long it takes to bake it. 

A suitable prize can be given the best receipt. 



PING-PONG LUNCHEON 



Ping-Pong Luncheon deserves mention for the novelty of 
the idea as well as for the cleverness of the hostess in planning 
her menu. The table decorations consisted of two ping-pong 
nets stretched diagonally across the table. In the center where 
the nets cross four racquets of white parchment with scarlet 
edges were placed. From these rose a bunch of asparagus 
ferns, and stuck amid the ferns, like big roses, were a dozen 
rosettes of taffeta ribbon or six different shades of red and 
pink. The name cards were of white cardboard cut in the 
shape of racquets with red edges. 
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The menu included white cream fish made into balls, each 
laid on a miniature racquet cut from fresh thin bread and 
butter; French chops trimmed into circular shape with the 
bone of each twisted with white frilled paper; these, forming 
little racquets, were served with potatoes cut into little balls. 
Balls of cream cheese were served on racquets of toasted 
bread, with lettuce leaves. Vanilla ice cream balls were served 
on racquets of drop cake. 

At the close of the luncheon each girl took one of the 
rosettes and found in it a tiny silver pin in the shape of a 
racquet to pin on her gown. The two who chose the same 
color had to meet each other in the tournament which occu- 
pied the rest of the afternoon. 



PATRIOTIC PARTY. 



Drape the drawing room for the occasion with red, white, 
and blue bunting. Fill tall cut glass vases with red, white, 
and purple chrysanthemums for the table and mantel shelves. 
Tie back the curtains with ribbons of the three colors and 
swing broad bands of it down in graceful loops from the 
chandelier or central point of the ceiling. 

Decorate the room with banners, streamers, red, white, and 
blue lamp shades, large copies of the State seals, and the 
like. 

Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia should stand in the center 
of the room and receive the presidents as they arrive. En- 
deavorers of the social committee representing in some way 
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii, should act as 
ushers to present each new-comer to Uncle Sam and Miss 
Columbia. 

Ask each guest to come bearing upon his garments some- 
where a symbol that will hint at the name of one of the Presi- 
dents. For instance, the picture of a canoe out of which 
folks are tumbling may suggest "Tippecanoe" Harrison; a 
link of sausage or of a chain, strung on a string and hung 
from the neck, will hint at Lincoln. A washing-board may be 
borne in front, while on the back is a piece of pasteboard 
painted to resemble a weight and marked "i Ton." A "G. 
A. R." pin fastened to the picture of a meadow may repre- 
sent Garfield. 

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Give each member of the society a hectograph list of the 
society roll call, and as they come in let they bestir them- 
selves to meet everybody, and write opposite each person's 
name the president he has symbolized in this way. These lists 
will be handed to an examining board from the social com- 
mittee, and, at a later period of the evening, the one whose 
list is most complete and accurate will be adorned with a 
laurel wreath placed upon his head by some comic orator. 
This laurel wreath may be made of green paper, if you lack 
the real article. 

A toy bank in the familiar design of log cabin. If this can- 
not be procured it could be replaced by an illustration of the 
same tough dwelling to form the rally-mark of William Henry 
Harrison's Presidential race. For the second symbol a small 
toy rooster, of the kind that can be had in the shops for 
a penny might be chosen. This stands for "the cock that 
hasn't crowed in thirty years," a favorite banner with Cleve- 
land's supporters during one of his campaigns. The third 
could be a small piece of wood cut to represent the rail 
which was Lincoln's coat-of-arms. For the next puzzle roll 
upon the scene a plebian looking keg labeled "Hard Cider," 
which will give another popular insignia of William Henry 
Harrison's campaign; while a big uncouth "beaver" borrowed 
for the occasion from amateur theatrical supplies should sug- 
gest the "Grandfather's Hat" of his descendant. Little bows 
of white and gold ribbon will be readily recognized as the 
right marks of the recent coinage issue. 

A dinner pail having the word "Full" upon it in capital 
letters would hint very cleverly at the emblem of the Re- 
publican party during the first McKinley-Bryan struggle. 



PIN PARTY. 



The invitations to this were written on large sheets of paper, 
and the sheet was then folded up small, and pinned with a 
large black pin. Each guest was requested to bring along a 
fancy stick-pin which he or she was willing to have disposed of 
as the hostess saw fit. 

On entering, these were given to the hostess, who thrust 
each into a small card bearing the name of the person bringing 
it. While her guests were removing wraps in the guest cham- 
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ber, she put these by twos into small jeweler's boxes. The 
name of the girl who brought the one pin was put also into 
the box, and any pin which was brought by a man. No man's 
name was enclosed. When the time came for supper these 
boxes were passed to the gentlemen, who each selected one. 
The name inside indicated which lady he was to take out to 
supper. One stick-pin went to each of the pair, and these 
served as souvenirs. 

It so happened that no man had the pin that he had brought 
to the entertainment, and of course no girl had hers, for she 
would insist that the man take the pin she had provided. As 
these pins were many of them the quaintest thing to be found 
by the person bringing them, they created not a little amuse- 
ment. 

But we are getting ahead of our story, for before supper the 
time was filled in with_yarious games. 

The first of these was an entertainment in which all the 
guests took part. A fancy tray contained as many slips of 
cardboard as there were guests. This was placed on the 
center-table, and the hostess called upon one of the men to 
pick up one of these slips at random, and read what it con- 
tained. He did so and read: "The tale of a pin." The 
hostess then informed him that he must tell the story of a pin, 
and do it io.two minutes. The surprise was so great that he 
scarcely recovered enough to begin his story before his time 
was up. Then he had to call on some girl, and she must take 
a slip, and do whatever it bid her, for the period of two 
minutes. And so on until all had taken part. Some of the 
slips read thus: 

Speak a piece with something in it about a pin. 

Name twenty-five kinds of pins. 

Oration on points. 

Give a talk on pinfeathers. 

Improvise a poem on "The boy and the pin." 

Tell twenty uses for a hairpin. 

Sew with a pin. With this was given a piece of cheese« 
cloth and a pin with a long thread tied to the head. 

Count the pins in a heap (all sizes and kinds). 

Draw a picture of a pin (breastpin of huge pattern). 

Ring toss. This last was a variation of the game of quoits 
or ring toss. Into a foot square piece of soft pine had been 
stuck twenty pins about an inch apart. The victim was given 
ten small brass rings, and made to stand two feet from the 
edge of the table, and see how many rings he could make 
catch over a pin. 



PUSSY WILLOW PARTY. 



Especially appropriate ideas for an evening's entertainment 
to be given the last of March or the first of April are sug- 
gested by the pussy willow. The invitations sent out to the 
invited friends can be written on cards brown-tinted like the 
bark of the trees, and can be very artistically decorated with 
the furry blooms, or with paintings of them. Trim up the 
parlors with pussy willows by filling vases, pitchers, and bowls. 
Place the catkins about the room and suspend branches of 
them from gas jets and about the windows. The hostess can 
adorn herself very prettily with these blooms by making 
wreaths for the neck and hair, and by pinning branches ol 
them on the skirt in some design. 

For entertainment, pin against the wall at one end of the 
room a sheet upon which is sketched a large pussy willow 
stalk. Distribute paper catkins among the guests, who in turn, 
try, blindfolded, to pin them on the stalk. This affords a 
great deal of amusement. Those who succeed in pinning their 
catkins upon the stalk receive prizes, given according to the 
success of the contestants. These prizes are in the shape of 
favors appropriately fashioned with the fluffy little pussies. 
For further amusement, have cards distributed on which' each 
person is asked to write favorite quotations or original rhymes 
beginning with each letter contained in the compound word 
"pussy-willow." These are read in turn, and many gems are 
brought fresh to each one's mind. One could also introduce a 
pussy willow hunt, as another pastime. For the dining-room 
decoration use .more pussy willows. A pussy willow centre- 
piece would carry out the idea nicely, and a_dd to the attractive- 
ness of the table. Brown and silvery green are suggestive 
colors for further decorations, which may be used in the 
menu cards, making them simple but appropriate souvenirs. 



POVERTY PARTTY. 



The committee should take especial means to _ have every 
one enter into this party to make it a success. When it was 
held at the home of the writer, the house was all torn up ready 
to move out the next day, so the floors were bare, the curtains 
were all down and everything looked very much poverty 
stricken. All the good furniture was moved out of the 



rooms, and store boxes with long boards across made the 
seats. Mush and milk was served in tin cups with tin spoons 
(borrowed for the party). A flashlight photograph was taken 
and every one had a thorough good time. 

YEW AIR AST TO A 

POVERTY PARTTY! 

that us folks of thee Trinity C. E. air a-goin tu hav at the 

hous where Mr. Linscott livs with his wife. It is on Alanson 

Strete. If yer cante finde it go to No. 36. 

MONDAY NITE, 

MARTCH THEE TWENTY ATE. 

RULS AND REGELASHUNS. 

Chap. One. Evry womman who kums must ware a kaliko 
dres and apern, ore somethin ekally apropriate. 

Chap. Tew. All men must ware there ole close and flannill 
shurts. Biled shurts and stanup dickys air prohibbitted onles 
there ole and rinkled. 

These Ruls Will Bee Inforced to thee Leter. 

One. A kompetunt core uf managers and ades will be in 
attendance. 

Tew. The hull sasiety wil interduce strangirs and luk after 
bashfil fellers. 

Three. There is a-goin to bee lots of phun fore every boddy. 

Fore. Phun wil begin to commance at haf pas seven. 

Five. Tu git into thee house yew wil have tew pay tu (2) 
cents. 

Six. Tu git anny thing tu ete yu will haf to pay thre (3) 
cents. 

Seven. Yew better bring lots uf pennies tu pay phines with. 
Kum Irly and Git a Gude Sete. 



POVERTY SOSHUL. 



You are Asked to the Parlors of Gen. and Mrs. Silas T. 
Jones. 
Wednesday Evening, April Twelfth. 
"Come in your rage, come in your tags," but not in velvet 
gowns, or you will be fined the usual sum. Read the pro- 
gram and all kum. 

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Rewls and Regerlashuns. 
First. Every womin what cums must ware a Poverty dres 
and apern, er somethin ekelly erpropriate, an leave her poodle 
dorg to hum. 

Second. Know gent with biled shirt and dood koller will 
be aloud to kum onless he pays a fine of five sents. 

Third. A kompitent komitty will intruduse strangers an 
look after bashful fellers. 

Vittles. 

Koffy, S cents Ginger Kake, 5 cents 
KUM AT KANDLE LIGHTIN AN STAY TIL BEDTIME 
NO OBSTERPROUS ER BAD BOYS PREMITTED 



PINK TEA. 



Of course everything at this tea must have the color pink 
in some way illustrated. Use pink doilies, pink paper napkins, 
pink flowers for decorations, young ladies should wear pink 
ties and pink ribbon bow in hair, or pink caps. Use pink 
paper to decorate lamp or gas shades. 

Menu could consist of wafers tied with pink ribbon, small 
pink frosted cakes. Strawberry punch (made same as lemon- 
ade) with canned or fresh berries, pink candies. 



PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS. 



1. A messenger One cent 

2. Mode of ancient punishment Stripes 

3. Means of inflicting it Lash 

4. Piece of armor. Shield 

5. Devoted young man Bow 

6. South American fruit Date 

7. Place of worship Temple 

8. Portion of a hill Brow 

9. Three weapons Arrows 

10. First American settler Indian 

1 1. Emblem of victory Wreath 

12. Emblem of royalty Crown 

13. One way of expressing matrimony United 



14. Part of a river Mouth 

15. Implements of writing Quills 

This can be used same as dime in the Easter Social. Only 

use a penny instead of dime. 

ORIEL MILLER, Y., Berea, O. 



PEDDLERS' PARADE. 



One recently given by the young people of a church 
to raise funds for charity work was extremely well man- 
aged. Invitations were issued to members of the con- 
gregation to attend a Peddlers' Parade at eight o'clock 
on a certain evening, a small sum being asked for admis- 
sion. The movable seats in the chapel were placed so 
that a wide space was left between them down the center 
of the hall. 

At eight o'clock a march was played, and through the 
door at the rear came a motley procession, greeted with 
peals of laughter, as one after another of the figures seen 
on the streets and in the market, selling their wares, was 
recognized. A little boy, seven or eight years old, with a 
red felt hat, a calico shirt, and gray overalls, carried under 
his arm a number of newspapers; a youth, wearing on his 
head a cook's white paper cap, had a tray filled with crisp 
brown doughnuts; two little girls held baskets filled with 
bags of candy, and a third a tray, on which lay small 
bunches of flowers. A young lady dressed as a market 
woman wore a calico gown and a plaid woolen shawl 
pinned over her head; on her arm was a basket filled 
with bunches of celery. A young man stalked up the 
aisle behind her, whose costume aroused a great deal of 
amusement. Huge pasteboard placards hung over his 
shoulders, one in front and one behind; the former bore 
the inscription: 

WILLIAM THE CORN-CURER. 

each word occupying a line; the back: 

MY SALVE CURES CORNS. 

His head was covered by a silk hat, the crown of which 
was hidden under a piece of pasteboard like the placards. 



Then came a lad drawing a cart in which was an ice- 
cream freezer, labelled: 

HOKEY POKEY, FIVE CENTS A GLASS. 

An Indian woman, whose wares were Indian baskets, 
appeared and a young lady selling druggists' specialties 
came next. She held a tray containing brushes, combs, 
tooth brushes, sponges, hand mirrors, and various toilet 
accessories, and her dress was trimmed with a border of 
sponges. A slender girl of seventeen years impersonated 
a jewelry peddler and gold watches, chains, bracelets, 
rings and jewels of all descriptions were fastened securely 
to her dress and on the edge silver teaspoons were 
crossed as a trimming. Much amusement was created by 
a necktie vender, whose costume consisted of a black 
skirt, black cutaway coat and gorgeous tie. On a hard- 
ware merchant's tray plebeian tin girdles shone with as 
undaunted a luster as silver, while brass, steel, copper and 
wire kitchen utensils made a brave display; then followed 
a young girl wearing round her neck a broad band of 
ribbon, which hung nearly to her waist, and on which, 
fastened so closely that they looked like a garland, were 
bows for the hair made of ribbons of various colors. A 
gypsy in brilliant apparel, and a French seller of per- 
fumes, also gayly attired, were conspicuous in the pro- 
cession, and venders of pop-corn balls and peanuts also 
lent variety to the scene. 

Marching through the lane left between the seats to 
the other end of the long room, they grouped themselves 
in a semicircle, and then one after another, stepping for- 
ward, offered the various articles, naming their prices. 



PICTURES OF PRESIDENTS. 



If the company be musical, the pictures of celebrated 
musicians could be appropriately used, and in writing 
down the names of these it could also be required of the 
guests to cite some noted composition of each; or should 
the company be general, the pictures of men prominent 
in different professions — divines, orators, actors, states- 
men — could be utilized in almost exactly the same 
manner. 

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Should the entertainment be given just now or in 
March — for the excitement attending the recent election 
has not yet died away, and the inauguration next March 
will again interest us in the subject of our chief executive 
— it would be quite appropriate to have on the cards pic- 
tures of the different presidents, to be named by the 
guests, and the dates of their respective terms in office 
to be given by them. While almost anyone could readily 
recognize a picture of Washington, Lincoln or Grant, 
there are other presidents whose portraits are not so 
familiar, and it would take a pretty good student in 
United States history to correctly recognize likenesses of 
them all, or even a dozen of the less familiar pictures of 
the group, much less to give the date of their terms of 
office. A framed picture of one of the greatest of the 
presidents might be given as first prize to the person 
whose card is filled out correctly with all the names and 
dates, or comes nearest to being so. 



PRESIDENT'S NICKNAMES. 



Let the nicknames of our presidents form the difficulty 
at the fourth stage of the entertainment. These should 
be written one at a time upon a blackboard and num- 
bered. One minute is allowed in which to guess and 
write down the name of the executive to whom the title 
was applied. The list of nicknames is as follows: 

Who was called — 

Rail-splitter of the West? Lincoln. 

Hero of New Orleans? Jackson. 

Old Man Eloquent? J. Q. Adams. 

Canal Boy? Garfield. 

Northern Man with Southern Principles? Buchanan. 

Tippecanoe? W. H. Harrison. 

Honest Abe? Lincoln. 

Rough and Ready? Taylor. 

Let the best list of answers count here for the prize as 
in the foregoing games. 

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PRESIDENTIAL QUESTIONS. 



What President had a son who became President? 
John Adams. 

What President died with the now famous words r 
"This is the last of earth. I am content?" John Q. 
Adams. 

Who was the fifteenth President of the United States? 
Buchanan. 

What Vice-President became President by the death 
of Taylor? Fillmore. 

By the death of Garfield? Arthur. 

What President fought the last battle of the War of 
1812? Jackson. 

During the administration of what President did the 
Louisiana Purchase and Burr's treason occur? Jefferson's. 

Under what President was the War of 1812 begun? 
Madison. 

What President outlined a famous foreign policy? 
Monroe. 

What two Presidents died the same day? Adams and 
Jefferson. 

What three Presidents were assassinated? Lincoln, Gar- 
field and McKinley. 

What Presidents served as generals in Mexican war?' 
Taylor and Pierce. 

During what administration did the annexation of 
Texas and the Mexican war take place? Polk's. 



PRESIDENTIAL POEM. 



George Washington first to the White House came, 
And the next on the list is John Adams' name; 
Tom Jefferson then fills the honored place; 
The name of James Madison next we trace. 
The fifth in succession was James Monroe, 
And John Quincy Adams the next below; 
And then Andrew Jackson was placed in the chair; 
Then next we find Martin Van Buren there. 
Then William H. Harrison's name we meet, 
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Whose death gave John Tyler the coveted seat. 

Then James K. Polk was the nation's choice; 

Next for Zachary Taylor she gave her voice. 

Whose premature death brought in Millard Fillmore; 

And then Franklin Pierce the distinction bore. 

The fifteenth was James Buchanan, they say, 

Who for Abraham Lincoln prepared the way, 

Whose martyrdom gave Andrew Johnson a chance. 

The eighteenth name was Ulysses S. Grant's. 

Then as nineteenth to take the place 

Rutherford B. Hayes won in the race; 

James A. Garfield next took his seat, 

And very soon after his death did meet. 

Chester A. Arthur filled out his term, 

Then made way for Grover Cleveland, we learn; 

And Benjamin Harrison then we greet, 

Who so ably filled his grandsire's seat. 

Then Grover wanted a second term, 

And the Democrats put him there, we learn. 

Then William McKinley the nation's choice 

Took the seat and the nation was made to rejoice 

The people loved this man of note, 

So they put him in by a second vote. 

But their joy was turned into mourning soon, 

For a martyred death was McKinley's doom. 

Then for a man the seat was ready 

So it was given to cowboy Teddy, 

Who now for himself well earned applause 

Because he took up the miner's cause. 



PICTURE READING. 



Picture reading is a novel amusement which is 
adapted to a small party only. 

Provide as many envelopes and short pencils as there 
are guests. On the outside of each envelope write the 
name of a guest. Place a lead pencil and a folded sheet 
of unruled paper inside of each envelope. 

When the guests are seated, present each one with the 
envelope bearing his or her name. The hostess, or some 
other person appointed by her, then explains to the 
company that each one is expected to draw a picture 
upon the paper found within the envelope. 
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No matter how crudely executed, each person must at least 
attempt to draw a picture of something, and then replace 
the sheet of paper in the envelope. 

A prophet or prophetess must he appointed, also an 
assistant, care being taken, however, that the former is 
pretty well acquainted with the different guests. The 
assistant collects the envelopes and keeps the names 
thereon carefully concealed from the prophet. He then 
takes from an envelope the drawing and presents it to 
the prophet. 

The latter proceeds to foretell the future life of the 
maker of the picture in his hand, revealing as much or as 
little as he pleases of the details of the picture. 

When he has exhausted the resources of the picture, 
he returns it to the assistant, who reads aloud the name 
on the envelope and restores both it and the picture to 
their owner. 



QUESTIONS OF STATE. 



i. Which is the most religious state? Mass. 

2. The most egotistical? Me. 

3. Not a state for the untidy? Wash. 

4. The most Asiatic? Ind. 

5. The father of states ? Pa. _ 

6. The most maidenly? Miss. 

7. The most useful in haying time? Mo. 

8. The best state in time of flood? Ark. 

9. Decimal state? Tenn. 

10. State of astonishment? La. 

11. State of exclamation? O. 

12. State to cure the sick? Md. 

13. Where there is no such word as fail? Kan. 

14. The most unhealthy state? 111. 



QUESTIONS OF STATE NICKNAMES. 



An excellent game for a merrymaking of this sort is 
called State Nicknames. To play it buy a package of 
blank cards, carte de visite size, and decorate each one 
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with a border of red, white and blue. Either water paint 
or colored chalks can be used for the bordering. Number 
each card and write upon it one of the following ques- 
tions, omitting, of course, the answer, which are added 
here for the convenience of the hostess: 

What is the Hoosier State? Indiana. 

The Nutmeg State? Connecticut. 

The Keystone State? Pennsylvania. 

The Buckeye State? Ohio. 

The Palmetto State? South Carloina. 

The Pine Tree State? Maine. 

The Prairie State? Illinois. 

The Sucker State? Illinois. 

The Lone Star State? Texas. 

The Lumber State? Maine. 

The Mother of States? Virginia. 

The Mother of Presidents? Virginia. 

The Old Dominion? Virginia. 

The Old North State? North Carolina. 

The Hawkeye State? Iowa. 

The Green Mountain State? Vermont. 

The Granite State? Vermont. 

The Freestone State? Connecticut. 

The Empire State? New York. 

The Diamond State? Delaware. 

The Creole State? Louisiana. 

The Corn Cracker State? Kentucky. 

The Blue Hen? Delaware. 

The Bay State? Massachusetts. 

Note. — These Nicknames can be used for Red, White 
and Blue Social. 



QUESTIONS ABOUT WHITE HOUSE PEOPLE. 



Questions about past ladies of the White House. This 
cannot fail to prove interesting and enjoyable. Do not 
attempt anything abstruse or of purely antiquarian in- 
terest, but base the questions somewhat upon the fol- 
lowing plan: 

What first lady of the land fled from Washington to 
escape the British? Dolly Madison. 
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What was Mrs. Lincoln's name before marriage? Miss 
Mary Todd. 

Name three early Presidents who married widows? 
Washington, Jefferson and Madison. 

What early President married a New York girl? Mon- 
roe. 

Whom did John Q. Adams marry? Louisa K. John- 
son, of Maryland. 

What President had a troubled love affair and mar- 
riage? Jackson. 

What early President like Washington married a widow 
called Martha? Jefferson. 

Prepare a set of cards having the names of the Presidents 
in anagram painted or pasted upon them. A soap advertise- 
ment of a woman bending over a wash tub, if combined with a 
sketch of a coal wagon full of coal will suggest Washing-ton to 
the alert player. One link of a chain with the word "On" 
written beside it will give Lincoln (link-on) in an unmis- 
takable way. A tailor cutting cloth clipped from a maga- 
zine or simply a tailor's advertisement can figure as 
Taylor. The word Eve alone on a card would create 
much merriment when discovered as Adams (Adam's). 
A picture of a parchment will with the words "I do here- 
by bequeath" could be detected to mean Grant. Two 
mows of hay could stand for Hayes. A photograph of a 
meadow cut in half and pasted upon the same card would 
give Cleveland (Cleaveland). 

Many of the other Presidents could be worked out in 
the same way if a longer list is desired. 



RED, WHITE AND BLUE LUNCHEON. 



The entire color scheme of this novel luncheon must be 
evolved in the national tints; as far as possible the doylies 
used should be designed in star-shaped patterns, with a border 
in wash silks of interwoven red carnations and blue corn- 
flowers. Suspended directly over the center of the table, a 
huge liberty bell should be hung, composed of red and white 
carnations, and blue corn-flowers. Depending therefrom 
should be ropes of red, white and blue ribbon, terminating at 
the four corners of the table. The luncheon to be served 
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should be as far as possible in the prevailing colors, the ices 
served in fire-cracker form and the starry banner hung in 
every available nook. Draperies and pictures indicative of the 
occasion should be placed in conspicuous points of vantage, 
not forgetting a goodly supply of pyrotechnics to conclude the 
day. Such a luncheon will certainly commend itself to all, and 
most particularly to the younger element. 

Blue grapes, red apples, and white popcorn balls fur- 
nish the refreshments. 

Write the following verses on cards and pass with the 
plates for refreshments, and have each one read aloud previous 
to the performance: 

1. Though puzzles do our minds distress, 
We'd like two good ones now to guess. 

2. We'd like to hear you tell today, 
Some funny things that children say. 

3. Describe some woman in the town, 

Her nose and hair, her dress and gown; 
But do not give us her address, 
Nor tell her name, and we will guess. 

4. We'd like a story full of fun; 
Your gifted, Lyman, tell us one. 

5. Misery likes company, they say; 
We'd like to hear you tell today 
(Don't hesitate, but now begin) 

Of the worst scrape you were ever in. 

6. Your talent gives us much delight; 
We wish that you would please recite. 

7. Your part in this programme to help us along, 
Will give us much pleasure, please sing us a song. 

8. If music hath charms, we wish that today 

You'd prove it and something quite charming would play. 

9. Tell some joke on yourself, your wife, or your friend. 
But we hope that you'll have it pleasantly end. 

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io. Describe some trip you've taken far, 
To Mexico, Europe, or the World's Fair. 

11. Give us a tale of old time when settlers were few, 
Of what they had then and what they did do. 

12. Describe some famous picture, 

Whether dark or fair. 
Please tell us all about it, 
And the artist rare. 

13. Without a bit of gossip sweet, 

This programme would not be complete. 
Be sure that while the seasons roll, 
This crowd will never tell a soul. 



ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY. 



Invitations to be sent out as follows: 

You are invited to attend a gathering 
of the Sons and Daughters of Erin 

at the home of 

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Rafferty, 

(Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott), 

105 Southern Ave., Cleveland, 

on St. Patrick's Day in the evenin'. 7.30. 

This is a masked party and you will come representing some 

Irish lady or gentleman. Each guest is asked to furnish an 

Irish story, song, or recitation. Use plenty of green and 

mask. 

REFRESHMENTS FOR IRISH PARTY. 

Wafers tied with green ribbon. 

Olives Pickles 

Irish potato chips 

(served on lettuce leaves). 

Green tea Lady fingers 

(tied with green ribbon) 

Green ribbon candy. 

ENTERTAINMENT FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY. 

When the guests arrive their assumed names are written 
on a card and pinned on each one and are introduced to the 
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company as Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McFadden, or Mr. Martin 
Dooly and Miss Maggie Murphy. Michael O'Toole might go 
as a bricklayer. There can be an old apple woman with a 
basket of apples (which could be sold for a penny apiece for 
the treasury). Mike McGinnis of the police force might go as 
an Irish policeman. Widdy Malony and her daughter Nora, 
the priest, Father McCrary, and sisters of charity. Let 
every one enter into the spirit of fun. Have the decorations of 
the house all green and have each one wear as much green 
as possible. Tin spoons tied with green ribbon can be given 
as souvenirs. Have an Irish potato race. Prizes of stick pins 
of Shamrock designs can be given the winner, or potato pin 
cushions tied with green ribbons. Have green paper napkins 
which can be made from green paper. Animals can be made 
from potatoes with toothpicks. Have each guest help in the 
entertainment of the evening by an Irish song, story or reci- 
tation. 



ST. PATRICK'S GUESSING CONTEST. 



By Sarah A. Leach. 
(Something Green). 

1. Name of a celebrated poet. (John Greenleaf Whittier). 

2. Name of a celebrated authoress. (Grace Greenwood). 

3. Child's artist. (Kate Greenaway). 

4. Revolutionary officer. (General Greene). 

5. Pennsylvania city. (Greensburg). 

6. Cold country. (Greenland). 

7. Western bay. (Green Bay). 

8. Emigrant. (Green horn). 

9. Domestic fruit. (Green gage plum). 

10. Large burial place. (Greenwood cemetery). 

11. Legal tender. (Greenback). 

12. A variety of apples. (Greenings). 

13. A place for growing plants. (Green house). 

14. A part of a theatre. (Green room). 

15. A harmless stimulant. (Green tea). 

16. A famous town in Kentucky. (Bowling Green). 

17. Children's game. (Green gravel). 

18. Another name for jealousy. (Green eyed monster). 

19. A country place near Pittsburg. (Green Tree). 

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20. A flourishing tree in the Bible. (Green Bay). 

21. Title of an Irish song. (Wearing of the Green). 

22. Another name for verdure. (Greenery). 

23. An article of desert. (Grenoble walnuts). 

25. A beautiful hamlet near Allegheny. (Evergreen). 



SHAMROCK LUNCHEON. 



An Idea for St. Patrick's Day. 

The St. Patrick idea was carried out in the bonbons, which 
were green, in the favors which were small silk hats with 
green feathers, filled with green candies. The ices and cakes 
were in the shape of the shamrock, the place cards were cut 
in the same shape and tied with green ribbons. The room was 
decorated with ferns and palms, no other colors were used in 
the floral decorations. The effect was pretty and decidedly 
interesting and unique. 

The invitations were written upon palegreen notepaper, with 
a shamrock leaf painted in water-color in one corner. The ex- 
quisitely blended shades of this leaf make it an easy and ef- 
fective decoration. In truth, we encountered some difficulty 
in finding a leaf to copy; but a volume of Moore's poems in- 
cased by a considerate binder in a shamrock- sprinkled cover, 
solved the problem ! 

The event was called a "Shamrock Luncheon," the hours 
were from two until six, and the word "whist" explained our 
intentions. 

The score-cards were cut from green cardboard, in the shape 
of a large shamrock ; and across the back of each was written 
a line of a humorous St. Patrick's day poem, which we had 
discovered in a newspaper. The verses will be found com- 
plete at the end of this article. It is adapted to twenty-four 
guests, but it is easy to insert more lines if more guests are 
invited. 

Each lady selected her partner for luncheon by finding the 
holder of the line which rhymed with her own. The score 
cards were tied with streamers of narrow white or green rib- 
bon, which served both to attach the cards to the gown and to 
indicate partners in "changing tables" — the green always play- 
ing with a white ribbon. (Care must be taken to tie rhyming 
cards, one with green and one with white). 
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When partners had been found, the entire poem, sufficiently 
humorous to break the ice of formality for itself, was read. 
As each lin<L was read, the owner of the card bearing that 
line took her seat as indicated, until all the guests were easily 
and laughingly seated. 

The six small tables were set with green and white china, 
and had for centerpiece a pot of blossoming shamrock. Any 
florist will sell or rent these: 

The menu was as follows : 

FRUIT SALAD. 

BOILED SALMON. CAPER SAUCE. 

POTATO AU GRATIN. 

CHICKEN SALAD IN LETTUCE NESTS. 

OLIVES. WAFERS. 

PISTACHIO CREAM. 

FANCY CAKES ICED IN PALE-GREEN. 

COFFEE. BONBONS. 

This repast, served by three pretty waitresses in white gown 
and green ribbons, was eminently satisfactory. Green and 
white bonbons are easy to obtain. Care must be taken, how- 
ever not to carry the color scheme too far into the menu, as 
green is not an appetizing color in all kinds of food. 

'"Twas the eighth day of March, so some people say, 
St. Patrick at midnight, he first saw the day! 
While others contend 'twas the ninth he was born ; 
An' 'twas all a mistake between midnight and morn. 
But mistakes will occur in a hurry and shock, 
And some blamed the baby, and some blamed the clock. 
So that with all the talk there was, no one could know 
If the child was too fast, or the clock was too slow ! 

"Now the first faction fight in owld Ireland, they say, 
Was all on account of St. Patrick's birthday. 
Some fought for the eighth, for the ninth more would die ; 
And who wouldn't see right, why, they blackened his eye. 

"At last each faction so positive grew 
That each kept a birth-day, and Patrick had two ! 
Until good Father Mulcahy, who showed them their sins, 
Said no one could have two birth-days, but twins ! 
Says he! "Bhoys, don't be fightin' fur eight or fur nine; 
Don't be always dividin', but sometimes combine. 
Unite eight and nine — seventeen is the mark. 
Let that be his birth-day.' Amen/ said the dark. 
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"If he wasn't a twin, sure his history will show 
That he's worth at least any two saints that we know. 
Then they all 'tuk a dhrop,' which completed their bliss ; 
And they keep up the practice from that day to this." 



SNOWDRIFT PARTY. 



First of all select from a good book of quotations or pro- 
verbs twenty sentences applicable to snow. Write these twenty 
verses on twenty cards, one verse to each card, and number 
them with the numbers from one to twenty. Now get to- 
gether a half dozen pasteboard or wooden boxes, and fill these 
with flakes of cotton wool or white paper torn into small 
pieces. Hide the quotation cards away in the snow thus 
formed. Each guest receives a wooden teaspoon, tied with 
ribbon, a notebook and pencil. The boxes are distinguished 
by letters or numbers painted upon them, and lots are drawn 
to determine in which "snowdrift" each guest shall dig. The 
digging is, of course, done with the spoons. Each player digs 
in the snow, turning it up spoonful by spoonful, until he dis- 
covers a card. When a card is found the quotation upon it 
must be read and the name of the author, if recognized, written 
down. Each author's name should be placed in the notebook, 
opposite the number of the card, in order to facilitate the work 
of the person who reads the lists to decide the prize. The 
cards, whether the author is known or not, are always re- 
turned to the box and hidden away in the snow. At the end 
of fifteen minutes, work ceases and the diggers begin on new 
drifts. This changing is done every fifteen minutes, a player 
digging always in a new snow bank until the number of boxes 
is exhausted. When the game reaches this stage all notebooks 
or tablets are collected by the mistress of the ceremonies. She 
compares the answers in the notebooks with her own lists, 
previously prepared. Incorrect guesses are pruned away with 
a blue pencil and the correct ones counted. It is, of course, 
the player who has most of these last who carries off the 
trophy. The prize should be in some way commemorative of 
the occasion. 

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THE STORY TOLD BY ALL. 



This amusing game can be played by a large or small com- 
pany. A large sheet of paper and pencil is furnished by 
the leader. After the name for a story is agreed on, the 
leader of the game commences by writing two or three lines, 
leaving his sentence unfinished, for the next writer to take 
up. None of his part excepting the last sentence should be 
visible to the next writer, the paper being doubled down to 
conceal it, the great amusement of this game being the variety 
of jumbled ideas. The leader should start as follows: 

THE HISTORY OF AN OLD MAID. 

In a small town in Green county lived an ancient maiden 
lady, who was notable for her remarkable — 

Then No. 2 takes it up and adds something, and so on 
until it has gone the rounds, then the leader takes the paper 
and reads it for the benefit of the whole company. 



SPINSTER TEA. 



Where a party of girls wish to have an evening all to 
themselves the "Spinster Tea" will furnish them with much 
merriment. 

As this sort of a tea should be quite informal the invitations 
may be written on plain white note-paper, as follows: 

"Being a spinster in good standing in this com- 
munity you are cordially invited to a 'Spinster 
Tea' on Tuesday evening, November twentieth, at 
seven o'clock, at 415 Madison Street. You are re- 
quested to dress in character, and to bring with 
you an old-fashioned picture of a man supposed to 
have been refused by you. Be prepared to tell the 
story of his wooing and to state what he lacked 
to make him pleasing to you. The narrator of the 
most improbable story will be given a heart." 

November tenth, Nineteen Hundred. 

When the evening of the tea comes, and the guests have 
all been introduced one to another, they may be ushered into 
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the dining-room and the supper be served. The dining-table 
should be arranged in as old-fashioned a style as possible. At 
the four corners place candlesticks with wax candles, and 
for a centerpiece have a large boquet of artificial bachelor's 
buttons. Use old-fashioned china and silver if you happen 
to have any. At each place put a few bachelor's buttons, to 
which attach a menu card by a narrow white taffeta ribbon. 

The refreshments should be numbered upon the menu cards, 
and each guest be allowed to choose one number each time 
around. The key to the menu given should be held by the 
hostess and the waitresses. 

The following menu was recently used at a "Spinster Tea" 
and created much merriment: 









KEY TO THE MENU. 


I. 


Always in pairs. 


1. 


Cup and saucer. 


2. 


Would they were here. 


2. 


Jolly boys. 


3- 


Front curls. 


3- 


Curled molasses chips. 


4- 


Objects of envy. 


4- 


Preserved pears (pairs). 


5- 


Warranted to pop. 


5- 


Bottle of ginger ale. 


6. 


A solace. 


6. 


Tea. 


7- 


Sadly missed. 


7- 


Kisses. 


8. 


High-backed comb. 


8. 


Honey in comb. 


9- 


Cause of woe. 


9- 


Spiced tongue. 


10. 


Courtship. 


10. 


Mush. 


[i. 


A lover. 


11. 


A spoon. 


t2. 


A small deceit. 


12. 


A plate. 


'3- 


Our tears. 


13- 


Salt. 


[4. 


Left over. 


14- 


Heart (baked). 



After all have partaken of refreshments the guests should 
adjourn to the parlor where a circle may be formed, and, be- 
ginning at the left, each spinster in turn may exhibit the 
picture of her wooer, and relate her story. Two judges may 
be chosen by lot to decide which is the prize story, and a 
large frosted gingerbread heart may constitute the prize. 



SCHOOL PARTY. 



(Can be used as a play.) 

"The Red School-house will open for the fall term on 
September fifteenth. As a goodly number of pupils is desired, 
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all receiving this are urged to search the highways and byways 
for others who may wish to attend. School will begin prompt- 
ly at eight. As there will be a recess, all pupils should bring 
their dinners. SOLOMON WISEACRES, Pedagogue." 

The coming of school-days, usually so much dreaded by 
young folks, was hailed with much delight by recipients of the 
above notice. On the appointed evening not only were there 
present the members of the society, but each one, heeding the 
injunction regarding the highways and byways, brought with 
him a friend. As the teacher had also found an extra pupil, 
there were just twenty- four in the party. The boys wore 
knee-trousers and the girls short skirts and pinafores, with 
their hair hanging down their backs in long braids or curls. 
All brought with them their dinners, packed in tin pails, in 
imitation of their country cousins. 

The school-house was a large new barn, the school-room 
being up-stairs in the hay-loft. Here were arranged two rows 
of benches, one for the girls and one for the boys ; blackboards 
hung on the walls, and there was a plain wooden table in 
front for the teacher's desk. Standing behind this the school- 
master, birch rod in hand, and looking very wise in a pair of 
huge spectacles, received his pupils and registered their names 
in a large book before him. Among those enrolled were Al- 
vira Sophronia Simmons, Malvina Jane Leggett, Serena Ann 
Wilkins, Patience Charity Gray, Nathan Bartholomew Brown, 
Ichabod Thompson and Abijah Larkins. 

Each pupil before being assigned a seat was interrogated 
somewhat as follows by the teacher: In what state and 
country were you born? Do you know your letters? How 
far can you count? Who was the first man? Who built the 
ark? And so on until the teacher had acquainted himself 
with the limits of his pupils' ignorance. 

When all were seated Teacher Wiseacres announced that 
school would open with singing. The pupils were thereupon 
thoroughly drilled in the scales and other exercises, the 
master severely reprimanding any who sang out of tune. The 
lesson concluded with songs usually sung at the club gather- 
ings, after which a knot of blue ribbon was given the one who 
had sung best, and a red bow to the pupil considered second 
best. 

During the course of this lesson, and also of those that fol- 
lowed, there were frequent interruptions caused by the refrac- 
tory behavior of some of the pupils. Serena Ann Wilkins 
was caught eating an apple, and was made to stand up in 
front with a book on her head. Malvina Jane Leggett had to 
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stand in the corner facing the wall for giggling; while, direst 
disgrace of all, Abijah Larkins was obliged to sit on the girls' 
side for drawing a caricature of the master on the blackboard. 

After the singing lesson small wooden slates (the old- 
fashioned kind bound in red cloth) were passed around 
and the following exercise in orthography given out : "It is an 
agreeable sight to witness the unparalleled embarrassment of 
a harassed peddler attempting to gauge the symmetry of a 
peeled onion which a sibyl has stabbed with a poinard." This 
task was accomplished with much puckering of eyebrows, and 
no one, it may be said, succeeded in writing all the words cor- 
rectly. 

The class stood up in front and were made to toe the line 
drawn in chalk on the floor. The pupil at the head was called 
upon first, and read until a mistake sent him to the foot, when 
the one next to him took his place. The master not only con- 
tinually urged his pupils to greater speed, but at the same 
time kept a sharp lookout, and gave many words of warning 
to any whose feet were out of order; and the frantic efforts 
of the pupils to obey instructions made the lesson one of 
the most laughable contests of the evening. It was continued 
until recess, the hour for refreshments. 

The dinner-pails had been given N for safekeeping into the* 
hands of the teacher. Now, when they were returned, it 
was discovered that the boys had received those belonging 
to the girls and the girls those of the boys. There was a 
happy correspondence in the exchange; Ichabod Thompson 
receiving the pail of Patience Charity Gray and she receiving 
his, and so on. The pupils thus paired off were to share their 
dinners with each other. The master, who also brought his 
dinner, reserved for himself the pail of the lady pupil sup- 
posed to be his favorite. 

There was great fun and laughter over the opening of the 
pails, for the aim had been not so much to bring a dainty 
luncheon as one that should be typical of the old-time dis- 
trict school. The following may be taken as a sample of 
the contents of one of the buckets : Bread and butter, dough- 
nuts, apple turnover, spice-cake, cheese and one very large 
cucumber pickle. Apples were contributed by the teacher. 
Dinner over, the remainder of recess was spent in playing 
games. Skipping the rope was one of the pastimes, and hop- 
scotch, tag and hide-and-go-seek were others. 

School was resumed with a geography lesson, really a 

game played as follows: The teacher requested one of the 

pupils to give a geographical name, that of a country, city,, 

river, etc. Others were then called upon at random to give 

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names, each of which had to begin with the last letter of 
the one preceding it. Thus, if the first name given were 
Egypt, the next one must begin with the letter T, as Texas, 
while the one following this would begin with S, as St. 
Louis. Any one who failed to respond in the time allowed — 
half a minute — was dropped out of the class and the ques- 
tion passed on. The lesson was continued until there was but 
one left, who received the usual decoration. 

The session closed with an old-fashioned spell-down, but 
before the class was dismissed the wearers of the ribbons were 
presented with prizes, these being small, daintily bound books. 
The others, that all might have a suitable reminder of the 
occasion, received book-shaped boxes of candy. This done, 
the bell was rung and school was closed. 

This school party can be played in hall or church. 



SEVEN DAYS IN ONE. 



This can be planned by any society who wishes to raise 
money and are willing to work to earn it. 



Have a booth with everything pertaining to wash day — 
wash aprons, clothes pin apron, clothes pin bags, wash tubs, 
boilers, wash boards, clothes lines, clothes pins, soaps, wash- 
ing powder, bluing, clothes basket. 



Have everything a house wife wants for ironing day — 
ironing board, irons, stands, holders, home-made holders, fine 
starch, bees wax, ironing board slips, polishing iron. 

WEDNESDAY. 

Wednesday's booth should have everything for mending 
day, such as needle books, stocking bags, buttons, button bags, 
pincushions, paper pins, needles, thread, darning needle and 
darning cotton, darning balls. 

THURSDAY. 

Make Thursday the reception day and fix this booth up 
cozy and nice and have a good, live reception committee serve 
at this booth. Have a book for the guests to register their 
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names and addresses (for future use). Serve ice cream, cake, 
lemonade and candy. Introduce strangers and appoint a 
committee to look after the backward ones. If this is a Y. 
affair pass the pledge cards and get signers, or a C. E. social 
get members to join while you are entertaining them. 



Let this booth be suggestive of sweeping day. Have plenty 
of dust caps, dust bags, dusting cloths, brushes, brooms, dust 
pans, dusters, large colored aprons (which sell readily). 

SATURDAY. 

Let this be a regular bakery. Have your friends bake up 
things for you to sell, and have on sale all such articles as 
will sell readily, such as pies, cakes, cakes, cookies, doughnuts 
bread, baked beans and so forth. 

SUNDAY. 

Have Sunday the crowning day of all. Have if possible a 
piano or organ, a full choir or quartet, and let them sing the 
sacred songs; have solos, duets, instrumental music and an 
orchestra if possible. Have sacred readings and make it as 
far as possible one of sacred enjoyment. 

If something extra is wanting let the singers dress in old 
time costumes and sing the old sacred songs with an organ 
accompaniment. 



THANKSGIVING DINNER. 



FOR CHURCH AND HOME DECORATTION. 

Thanksgiving Day, which is now observed nationally, af- 
fords fine scope for floral decorations, and particularly in 
the churches about the pulpit or altar or other parts of the 
chancel. At such a time all kinds of bright flowers can be 
used, but specially appropriate are bouquets and decorations 
of carefully "preserved grasses and stalks of grain, such as 
wheat, barley, oats and rye, and a skillful hand might intro- 
duce, in proper places, ears of bright golden corn or maize. 
The tall stalks of corn, too, with the half-declining partly 
husked ears, may be brought into use. And so also in the 
cotton regions very fine effects may be produced with the 
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stems of the cotton plant, with their little sprigs all covered 
with the opening balls of white cotton — intermingling with 
these some 'bright colored berries and green leaves and a 
scene almost fairy-like may be produced. 

Very pleasing wreathes may be made by intermingling grain 
and evergreens ; wheat, barley, oats and rye may be used, 
either one or all kinds in the same wreath — take about a dozen 
heads of one kind of grain and plait it into a little bunch, 
then do the same with each kind used; as the bits of ever- 
green are wound upon the ring, cord or flexible rod which 
forms the base of the wreath, the bunches of grain should 
be woven in, at regular intervals, and in proper rotation of 
each kind, so that when the wreath is suspended the grain 
hangs out a fringe along the bottom to the widest part — the 
upper part of the wreathe can be tastefully set off with ever- 
lasting flowers. 

A very handsome "harvest sheaf" may be made by carefully 
arranging stalks of wheat into little bundles of a handful 
each, and the same way with oats and barley. 

After all has been placed in position and the sheaf bound 
about half way down with a wisp of straw, the strings on the 
bundle should be cut, so that they may open. These little 
bundles should be of different lengths, so that they may be 
placed with the tallest, which should be the wheat, at the 
center of the sheaf and the shortest at the circumference. For 
convenience each handful should be tied together with a string 
just under the head. 

The fact is, ingenuity, skill and taste can force into service 
what would otherwise pass unnoticed. 

Fruit of all kinds can be made up into handsome dishes 
or shallow baskets and placed in full sight, low down. 

A good dinner might be regarded as the synonym for 
Thanksgiving, the observance of which has spread to every 
part of the Union; and the good housewife is already pon- 
dering the matter of decorations and the more substantial 
part of the feast. ffl 

A most charming centerpiece for the table is composed of 
of scarlet geraniums and glossy ivy leaves. Cover the table 
with a white cloth, and place in the center a low, square 
basket, the handles covered with ivy and trails of ivy partially 
enclosing its base. Fill the basket with damp moss, slightly 
banked in the center, and into this thrust the geraniums quite 
compactly with a border of "ivy-green." 

If flowers are scarce, make a thick wreath of ivy or any 
green vine, and dot with the little flowerlets of scarlet gera- 
nium here and there. In this way a few sprays of geraniums 
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will suffice. Place the wreath in the center of the table on a 
tin covered with damp moss, arranging the leaves of ivy so 
as to hide the tin from view. In the center of the wreath 
place a vase containing one or two single perfect blossoms in 
white or red, with plenty of green. About the central piece 
place small dishes holding the olives, bon bons, salted almonds 
and nuts. These may be in small glass or dainty china dishes, 
and may also be garlanded with sprays of green. 

The same menu and animal decorations that are used for the 
Christmas dinner can be used here. 

P. S. — While you are preparing this dinner, do not forget 
the poor around you, and remember the cup of "cold water." 



THANKSGIVING FOOT-BALL DINNER. 



As might be expected, the members of the College Club 
all attended the foot-ball game on Thanksgiving Day, and it fol- 
lowed very naturally that they should take dinner together 
afterwards. Since the one who was to entertain them during 
November had not yet done so, he took upon himself the pleas- 
ure of giving this dinner, forewarning his guests of his inten- 
tion some time beforehand, that they might make no other en- 
gagements for that afternoon and evening. 

The party was in the best of spirits when they started for 
the ball-grounds, riding on the top of a tally-ho engaged for 
the occasion; and since their side was victorious they were 
equally enthusiastic when they returned later to the home of 
their host, where they were received in breezy fashion har- 
monizing with the hilarity of the afternoon. While the ladies 
were up-stairs removing their wraps a maid came in with a 
tray on which were six wishbones, each having tied to it a 
knot of ribbon of one of the different college colors. Of these 
they were to take their choice, according to the college or 
university they preferred. Meanwhile the gentlemen down- 
stairs had been presented with ribbon rosettes, and as these 
matched the ribbons on the wishbones they easily found the 
ladies whom they were to take in to dinner. 

When the company entered the dining-room they found that 
the decorations were in perfect harmony with the character 
of the game which they had just witnessed. Chrysanthe- 
mums, which are considered a necessary accompaniment of a 
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foot-ball game, were everywhere. A yellow jardinere filled 
with ragged beauties in red and bronze stood in the center of 
the table, while a single long-stemmed flower was laid beside 
each plate. There were also chrysanthemums in vases on the 
mantel and sideboard. The favors, or "mascots," of the din- 
ner were small turkey-gobblers of papier-mache containing 
the bonbons. 

A feature of the dinner enjoyed almost as much as the feast 
itself was the novel form of the menus. These were written 
on two opposite pages of small booklets, the outside covers 
of which were decorated with characteristic foot-ball sketches 
accompanied by appropriate quotations. These were so 
unique and appropos to the occasion that each member of the 
club carried his home as a souvenir when he left at the end 
of the evening's entertainment. Instead of being separated 
into the usual courses the menu was divided, like a foot-ball 
game, into a first and second half, with an intermission be- 
tween, and was arranged to read somewhat like a foot-ball 
programme, giving in outline the particulars of a game, the 
various terms and expressions in which described the names 
of the viands. The following is an illustration, except that in 
the original the names of the different articles were omitted, 
a word in parentheses giving a hint where the meaning seemed 
doubtful : 

FIRST HALF. 

I. The spectators arrive and discuss the "points" (blue) 
of the game. 

Blue Points. 

II. A tally-ho "bowls" in with the foot-ball term, said to 
be "superior." The players enter the field with great "celer- 
ity," the small boys enthusiastically declaring them to be 
""crackers." 

Celery. Soup. Crackers. 

III. Play begins with "a fair catch taken on the fly." 

Fish. 

IV. A "foul (fowl) tackle." 

Turkey. 
"Pease" follows a "runner," but "Murphy" interferes and 
""beats" him off. 

Peas. Squash. Potatoes. Beets. 

V. The game at the end of the first half is distinguished by 
the fine playing of the "backs" (canvas). 
Canvasback Ducks. 
Intermission. 
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During the intermission the heads of several players, young 
and green, bruised in the mix-up, receive a dressing down. 
Lettuce Salad. 

SECOND HALF. 

I. The wedge, or V-shaped, play is tried. 

Pie (Mince and Pumpkin). 

II. Followed by disastrous results, necessitating a call for 
"sponge" and "ice." 

Sponge Cake. Ice. 

III. The "fruits" of faithful training are manifest. 

A "bunch of purples" go down before a single "orange." 
"Bartlett" and "Nellis," a fine pair (pear), become "candi- 
dates" (candied dates) for great honor, "raisin' " cheers of 
delight from the spectators by circling the ends, who are 
"nut" what they are "cracked" up to be. 

Fruits. Grapes. Oranges. Pears. Candied Dates. 
Raisins. Nuts. 

IV. The cup is presented. 

Coffee. 

V. Everybody leaves the grounds. 

Although the above may seem a little far-fetched to the 
authority on foot-ball, the members of the Round-Dozen Club 
were not over-critical, and the novel programme proved a 
great source of entertainment, keeping them wondering and 
speculating between the numbers what was coming next. Some 
of the guests supposed the "bruised heads" in the salad to 
be those of the cabbage, it having apparently escaped their 
minds that there was such a thing as head-lettuce. Others 
failed to see the connection between squash and "runner" until 
reminded of the fact that squash grows on a vine running 
along the ground, while a smile went around the table as one 
by one, after concluding that coffee was referred to in "The 
cup is presented," discovered, also, the double meaning in the 
final words of the menu. "Everybody leaves the grounds." 

A number of things served on the table, such as cranberries, 
jellies, olives, etc., were not named in the menu, owing to the 
difficulty of expressing them in foot-ball language. 

After dinner there was much fun and merriment over pull- 
ing the wishbones, the ladies having offered to break theirs 
with the gentlemen attending them at dinner. Later the guests 
gathered around the open fireplace cracking nuts, telling 



stories and having a good time generally. When the time 
came for the members to depart they voted the Thanksgiving 
dinner of which they had partaken the most unique to which 
they had ever sat down. 



THANKSGIVING NOVEL DINNER PARTY. 



To prepare for it get together as many good sized white 
cards as you expect guests. Paint at the head of each card, in 
gold lettering, the word menu. 

Leave one side of the card blank, and on the reserve side 
copy the following riddles, writing them in minute chirogra- 
phy, and arranging them to look as much like a bill of fare as 
possible. 

I — To purchase lids or covers. 
2 — What a cockney captain would say in bidding his men run 

up a sail. 
3 — Stage Assistants. 

4 — Discovered by Roentgen. 

5 — A famous town in Belgium. 
6 — Enjoys. 
7 — A girl's name. 8 — Dreadful predicaments. 

9 — Parts of bolts, salinated. 
io — Appropriate. 

ii — A country filled with old jokes. 
12 — Too many old jokes. 
13 — A barrel measure and inters. 
14 — To vend an eagle's nest. 

15 — To summon a blossom. 

16 — A heathen goddess. 
17 — To gather with a needle, and a wager. 
18 — Judy's husband. 

19 — Popular pastime. 
20. To cover. 

21 — A circulating sweetmeat. 
22 — Country content. 

23 — To speak softly. 
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24 — Relations and the outdoor water supply. 
25 — Rewards of merits. 

26 — Two sounds of the same letter. 
27 — Hibernian reasons. 

28 — Autum windfalls. 
29 — The way the throat feels with a cold. 

Pencils should be distributed with the cards, and each 
player requested to write his answers on the reverse side of the 
sheet, numbered like the questions. If correctly guessed the 
answers will read as follows : 

1 — Buy valves (bivalves). 2 — 'Oist'er (oyster). 3 — Supes 
(soups). 4 — Pure rays (puree). 5 — Boullion. 6 — Relishes. 
7 — Olive. 8 — Pickles. 9 — Salted nuts. 10 — Meet (meat). 
11 — Turkey. 12 — Chestnut stuffing. 13 — Cran-burys( cran- 
berries). 14 — Sell eyry (celery). 15 — Call a flower (cauli- 
flower). 16— Isis (ices). 17 — Shirr (sher) bet. 18 — Punch. 
19 — Game. 20 Quail. 21 — Current (currant) jelly. 22 — 
Green peace (peas). 23 — Mince. 24 — Pumpkin. 25 — Des- 
serts (deserts). 26— Ka-ke (cake). 27 — Raisins. 28— <Nuts. 
29 — Coughy (coffee). 

The cards are collected at the end of an hour by the hostess, 
who marks off all incorrect answers, and counts those correct- 
ly given. 

The maker of the .best list among the gentlemen receives 
a silver scarfpin, in the shape of a turkey wishbone. The 
best effort among the ladies carries off a lovely little notebook 
prepared for manuscript recipes. Great fun results when the 
winners of boobies are presented with big, delicious pumpkin 
pie. 



DECORATIONS AND GAMES. 



Great cornstalks, with the husk merely turned back to 
show the yellow ear, are extremely effective. A huge bunch 
of these on either side of the drawing room door will take the 
place of palms. They may also be placed at the entrance 
to the dining room, their sentinel-like appearance making them 
charming as a doorway decoration. Here and there great 
pumpkins hollowed out to admit of the flower-pot with its 
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growing green, make unique jardiniers. A bunch of corn 
where the ear is red, tied by means of a bow of yellow ribbon 
to the chandelier, admits of the same suggestion as the mistle- 
toe of Christmas time, and makes a pretty spot of color, besides 
being the cause of much quiet fun. 

A pretty feature is to have a pumpkin table brought in dur- 
ing the refreshments and a guessing contest, which gives an 
opportunity for much merriment and for the giving of prizes 
to the lucky guessers. 

This table should be arranged as follows : A small, highly 
polished table (mahogany is perhaps the richest in effect), a 
dainty embroidered centerpiece upon it, and standing on this 
either a silver dish which holds a large pumpkin, or the dish 
may be dispensed with and the pumpkin rest directly on the 
white cloth. This pumpkin should be hollowed out, as the 
others, leaving only its yellow shell, the pumpkin holding an 
assortment of fruit, luscious and beautiful — highly polished 
red-cheeked apples, oranges, bananas and grapes ; trailing here 
and there among them a few red leaves, or if these cannot be 
obtained owing to the lateness of the season, a spray of wild 
clematis, of bitter-sweet or of smilax. 

The guests are told that underneath the fruit lies some- 
thing suggestive of nature's ways, and therefore of the occa- 
sion — to guess what it may be and how much of it there 
may be. 

The guesses will be manv and varied. The fruit-dish may 
be passed, the fruit disposed of, and underneath will be found 
the pumpkin's seeds, which have been gathered together. The 
prize for the guest that guesses the nearest can be a little 
ho rn-of -plenty drinking glass. If one wishes to give souvenirs 
of the occasion "charming little pencils can be obtained that 
have the lead pushed out from a miniature ear of corn. This 
feature, however, is quite unnecessary. 



TENNIS PARTY. 



Write invitations on small white cardboard rackets. Dec- 
orate the walls with tennis rackets and nets. Have tennis 
rackets hung from each chandelier, and stretch a large net 
across the room. Place in this net red and white rackets of 
pasteboard, each tied to the several yards of red and white 
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ribbon, and have them all tangled up. The object is to wind 
up the string on the racket, and secure as many as possible 
without breaking the ribbon. The committee should wear red 
belts with seven red streamers, each containing a letter, and 
spelling the word "welcome." Place welcome mottoes about 
the room and pinned on the rackets and nets. Red and white 
flowers of all kinds can be used for decorations. Take small 
pasteboard rackets, write quotations on, cut in half and give 
one-half to ladies and half to gentlemen, and have them 
match the quotations. 

Refreshments can be passed in regular tennis rackets, in 
summer, lemonade and wafers, or in winter hot coffee and 
cake. 

Red and white decorated rackets can be given each guest 
as they leave for souvenirs. 



20TH CENTURY PARTY. 



In this game of guess the contestants are told that each 
question must be answered with the name of a man who 
has attained some sort of fame during the last hundred 
years; can be replied to with the names of celebrities who 
have lived in or whose lives have extended into the nine- 
teenth century. Each guest is given a little tablet with his 
name written on every one of the pages. Two minutes are 
allowed to each question. The questioner sits with a big 
bowl before her, into which, when she calls time, each player 
drops a slip upon which he has written his answer. This is 
the list that the questioner reads, omitting, of course, the an- 
swers : 

Why did England so often lose her way in South Africa? 
Mr. Rhodes. 

What did the Emperor of China do when the Empress 
usurped the throne? Custer. 

What did Isaac watch while his father was forging a chain? 
Abraham Lincoln. 

What is Li Hung Chang credited with being? Schley. 

The lane that has no turning is what? Longstreet. 

What does a Chinese lover say when he proposes? Dewey. 

What does Aguinaldo keep between himself and the Ameri- 
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cans? Miles. 

What happens when the wind blows in spiders' houses? 
Webster. 

What did Buller unfortunately do? Bragg. 

What do the waves do to a vessel wrecked near shore? 
Beecher. 

What does a ship do to a seasick man? Rockefeller. 

What did Uncle Sam do when he wanted to know whether 
England would let him mediate? Astor. 

What is the end of the Philippine war often thought to be? 
Nye. 

What is the chair-boy likely to do to the old lady he has to 
push on a hot day? Wheeler. 

What is a novel military name for a cook? Kitchener. 

What do you do when you drive a slow horse? Polk. 

When did you get up to see a sunrise? Early. 

When Max O'Rell gets on a platform what does he do? 
Speaker Reed. 

What does a waiter do after he has filled half of the 
glasses at a table? Fillmore. 

In the settlement of disputes, do the European nations 
quarrel? General Lee. 

The towns taken by the British generally lacked the what? 
Garrison. 

What did the Jews say when the mother of Samuel passed? 
Mark Hanna. 

In Cairo purchases are made at a what. Booth. 



TREE PARTY. 



For a June entertainment nothing could be more suitable 
than a tree-party, for at this season the new leaves are all 
out and everything looks fresh and green. Trim the house 
with branches and blossoms, having as many varieties of 
trees represented as possible. When all the guests have ar- 
rived, give to each one a strip of cardboard, having a pencil 
tied to it with a bit of green ribbon, and upon which are writ- 
ten the following questions of tree puzzle : 
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TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. 



The 
Bible con- 
tains 3,566,480 
letters, 810,697 
words, 31,175 vers- 
es, 1,189 chapters, 
and 66 books. The 
longest chapter is the 
119th Psalm; the shortest 
and middle chapter, 117th 
Psalm. The middle verse is 
the 8th of the 118th Psalm. 
The longest name is in the 8th 
chapter of Isaiah. "And" occurs 
46,627 times; "Lord" 1,855 times. The 
37th chapter of Isaiah and the 19th chapter 
of the 2d Book of Kings are alike. The long- 
est verse is the 9th of the 8th chapter of Esther; 
the shortest verse is the 35th of the nth chapter 
of John. In the 21st verse of the 7th chap- 
ter of Ezra is the alphabet. The finest 
piece of reading is the 26th chapter 
of Acts. The name of God is 
not mentioned 
in the 
Book 
of Esther. It 
Contains Knowledge, 
Wisdom, Holiness, and Love. 



TREE PUZZLE. 



1. What's the social tree, 

2. And the dancing tree, 

3. And the tree that is nearest the sea? 

4. The dandiest tree, 
5. The kissable tree, 
6. And the tree where ships may be? 
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7. What's the tell-tale tree, 
8. And the traitor's tree, 
9. And the tree that's the warmest clad? 

10. The languishing tree, 

11. The chronologist's tree. 
12. And the tree that makes one sad? 

13. What's the emulous tree, 

14. The industrious tree, 

15. And the tree that will never stand still? 

16. The unhealthiest tree, 

17. The Egyptian-plague tree, 
18. And the tree neither up nor down hill? 

19. The contemptible tree, 

20. The most yielding tree, 
21. And the tree that bears a curse? 

22. The reddish brown tree, 

23. The reddish blue tree, 

24. And the tree like an Irish nurse? 

25. What is the tree 

That makes each townsman flee? 
26. And what round itself doth entwine? 

27. What's the housewife's tree, 

28. And the fisherman's tree, 

29. What by cockneys is turned into wine? 

30. What's the tree that got up, 

31. And the tree that was lazy, 

32. And the tree that guides ships to go forth? 

33. The tree that's immortal, 

34. The trees that are not, 

35. And the tree whose wood faces the north? 

36. The tree in a bottle, 

37. The tree in a fog, 

38. And what each must become ere he's old? 

39. The tree of the people, 

40. The traveler's tree, 

41. And the sad tree when school-masters hold? 

42. What's the tree that has passed through the fiery heat, 

43. That half-given to doctors when ill? 
44. The tree that we offer to friends when we meet? 

45. And the tree we may use as a quill? 

46. What's the tree that in death will benight you? 

47. And the tree that your wants will supply? 

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And the tree that to travel invites you, 
49- And the tree that forbids you to die? 



1. Pear. Tea. 

2. Hop. 

3. Beech. 

4. Spruce. 

5. Tulip. Yew. 

6. Bay. 

7. Peach. 

8. Judas. 

9. Fir. 

10. Pine. 

11. Date. 

12. Weeping Willow. 
13- Ivy. 

14. Spindle-tree. 

15. Caper. 

16. Sycamore. 

17. Locust. 

18. Plane. 

19. Medlar. 

20. India-rubber. 

21. Fig. Damson. 

22. Chestnut. 

23. Lilac. 

24. Honeysuckle. 

25. Citron. 

Have printed or written slips of paper with the "Tree Puz- 
zle" questions on and have each one numbered from one to 
forty»nine. Pass these to the guests with paper and pencil 
and have them guess the answers. To the one who guesses 
the most correct a prize can be given. 



26. Woodbine. 

27. Broom. 

28. Basswood. 

29. Vine. 

30. Rose. 

31. Satin. Aloe. 

32. (H) elm. 

33. Arbor-vitae. 

34. Dyewoods. 

35. Southernwood. 

36. Cork. 

37. Smoketree. Hazel. 

38. Elder. 

39. Poplar. 

40. Wayfaring tree. 

41. Birch. 

42. Ash. 

43. Coffee. 

44. Palm. 

45. Aspen. 

46. Deadly. 

47. Breadfruit. 

48. Orange. 

49. Olive. 



TREE POOL. 



That the guests may choose partners, give out cards of red, 
green, yellow, and brown cardboard cut in the shape of leaves, — 
maple, elm, oak, etc. There should, of course, be but two 
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leaves of the same shape and color, one of each being passed 
to the ladies, the corresponding ones to the men. The game is 
played in the usual way, except that the words made must be 
only the names of trees or shrubs. For those who may not be 
altogether familiar with the game, the rules are that each one 
in turn draws a letter from the pool, then tries by transposing 
one of his opponent's words to use this letter, and so make a 
new word for himself. Plurals are not considered new words. 
If one cannot use the letter to draw from his opponent's, or 
in his own list, it is thrown back, and the turn passes to the 
next. If, however, the letter is used, the player has another 
turn. When either couple at the head table have made ten 
words, the bell is rung and the guests score and progress as in 
any other game. 

When supper is served, have the table decorated with a plant 
standing in the center, and from this to each corner of the 
table have a row of Noah's Ark trees, which can be purchased 
at any toy shop. Stand one of these on each of the plates as 
they are passed to the guests. 



TREE GAME. 



Pin a slip containing the name of some tree, on the back 
of each person present. 

Questions may be asked concerning it, which will give a 
clue to the wearer. 

As fast as each one is guessed the slip is taken off the back 
and pinned on the breast. Allow fifteen minutes for each per- 
son to write an original poem on the tree he represents. 
Judges are appointed to select the best poem, and a suitable 
prize can be awarded. 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



Pass slips of paper around with the names of different trees 
-■all in capital letters, but not spelled properly, for instance, 
Y-H-O-K-R-I-C, which when transplanted will spell the name 
Hickory. A suitable prize can be given the one who has the 
most correct. 

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TELEGRAPH INVITATIONS. 



The Y. W. C. T. U. Telegraph Company. 
Hundreds of Societies in America. 
No. Sent By. Received By. Check. 

7. B. W 25Pd. 4:40 P. M. 

Received at Cleveland, O., Nov. 15, 1901. 
Dated at Cleveland, O., Nov. 15, 1901. 
To Mr. John Smith. 

Please meet at the home of the President, Mary Brown, Nov. 
22, 1901, to be entertained by Y. W. C. T. U. Refreshments 
will be served, games will be played and amusements will 
be furnished. Please answer in person on date given above. 

Y. W. C. T. U. Committee. 

Note. — Game of Telegrams may be used here. 



TELEGRAMS. 



This game is played by providing each guest a paper and 
pencil, and read ten letters of the alphabet to the company. 
These are to be copied, the guests are told to write a New 
Year's resolution of ten words, each beginning with one of the 
letters used, in the order in which they are given out. These 
importuned resolutions, when read, will afford much amuse- 
ment. 



TEN VIRGINS (SACRED PLAY). 



Select ten young ladies who are good singers — six sopranos 
and four altos. Divide into two groups, three sopranos and 
two altos in each group. Have all dress in long white robes 
and each carry a candle. Five should have lighted candles and 
five not lighted. Have all behind a curtain and before they ap- 
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pear have the whole ten sing the hymn, "Be robed and ready 
when the bridegroom comes." This can be found in any sacred 
song book. Have a small room curtained off on one end of 
platform. While singing the last verse, "We'll all go forth to 
meet Him when He comes," the five with candles lighted will 
march forth from behind the curtain and pass across the plat- 
form into the small room. They go in and the door is shut. 
The other five virgins come forth with no light and pass across 
the platform silently, and knock at the door, but they cannot 
get in. The five foolish virgins then sing, "Oh, let us in, the 
night is dark and chill," and the five wise virgins who have 
passed in will answer, "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now." 
This is found in Methodist Hymnal No. 375. The five foolish 
virgins ask the question and the five wise answer with the "Too 
late." 



"T" TEST. 



Have the committee prepare paper with questions on one 
side (see test questions and answers) and number to twenty, 
also put twenty numbers down for answers. Double paper 
in shape of book so there will be four sides to it. On the out- 
side have large T to cover nearly whole page, also put date 
of social, on the back put name of society and where social 
is held. Have plain white card with the name of each guest 
on and a punch that is in shape of T to make a hole in corner 
of book and card and tie with ribbon. After this T test guess- 
ing is over pin the name of some animal on back of each 
person and have them guess what they represent by persons 
acting that animal out for them to guess by. 

As fast as they guess the correct answers they have a T 
punch mark in their card. 

The one who has the most T marks on their card is the win- 
ner of the game. 

Serve tea and cake for refreshments. 



FOR T TEST. 



1. What our forefathers fought for. (Liberty). 

2. A total abstainer. (Teetotaler). 

3. A carpenter's instrument? (T square). 

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4. " " thy name is woman. (Frailty). 

5. The greatest thing in the world. (Charity). 

6. Forever and ever. (Eternity). 

7. The mother of invention. (Necessity.) 

8. Faithful allegiance. (Loyalty). 

9. The crown of woman. (Modesty). 

10. Two's company. (Tete-a-tete). 

11. The best policy. (Honesty). 

12. The soul of wit. (Brevity). 

13. The four hundred. (Society). 

14. Mother Eve's failing. (Curiosity). 

15. A modern Hector. (Tease). 

16. A witty retort. (Repartee). 

17. To laugh. (Hilarity). 

18. The power of the age. (Electricity). 

19. Beauty's temptation. (Vanity). 

20. Religion of Civilization. (Christianity). 



UNIVERSITY LUNCHEON. 



A Yale luncheon given last Christmastide was a brilliant 
success. The ideas may be utilized for the entertainment of 
students from any college, merely changing the colors. Har- 
vard's crimson, for example, Iowa's old gold, Chicago's 
maroon, Texas's white and orange, or Dartmouth's green. The 
invitations read: 

' Mr. George Welsh, 
Miss Olive Welsh. 
Yale Luncheon, Dec. 20th, 
From I to 3 P. M. 

The Welsh house is small. There is a cozy reception hall, 
parlor, sitting room and dining room on the first floor. All 
the rooms open into each other with wide arches, which fit it 
capitally for entertaining. Our decision was to have no flow- 
ers, not even a palm, and keep the entire house in harmony of 
coloring. Fortunately for our scheme, every room had a quiet 
gray or bluish paper, and in carpents, furniture and hangings 
there was not a touch of color that would clash with the blue 
of Yale. Our first bit of luck was the loan of a huge bundle of 
Yale flags and bunting from the College Men's club. A flag, 
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with a great white "Yale" on it, we stretched across one end 
of the sitting room, another, as immense as a campaigning 
banner, draped the west wall of the dining room. The stairs 
were garlanded with dark blue bunting, and all over the house 
fluttered little class flags bearing dates that run from '80 to '04. 
We allowed bunches of mistletoe tucked cunningly under gas 
fixtures. Holly was out of the question; it would have rooted 
for Harvard. 

Serving luncheon at one was an innovation, but an excellent 
one. When the dishes were cleared away the anxiety was over, 
and the hostess moved about among her guests without a 
thought of a meal to be served at the end of the game. We 
set ten small tables, three in the dining room, four in the sitting 
room, two in the parlor and one in the hall. The tables were 
snowily linened, there were doilies in blue and white, and the 
centerpiece on each table was a glass dish filled with small 
bunches of splendid blue and white grapes. There was nothing 
blue to be found in the fruit or flower kingdom except these, 
and the coloring was superb. All the dishes we used were 
handsome old-fashioned willow ware or solid dark blue. 



UNIQUE VALENTINE PARTY. 



AS IT WAS PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT. 

The invitations requested that each guest appear in costume 
and masked. This was the keynote of the affair. An early 
lunch was planned, as they were to choose partners while 
still masked, and judging they would wish to remove their 
masks, after that form of the entertainment had flagged a 
little. 

The rooms were decorated with valentines which had ac- 
cumulated in 14 years and others prepared for the purpose. 

After the choice of partners, masks were removed, and 
all marched to the dining room, keeping time with a pretty 
march which was played. 

It being a birthday party, the ever new feature, the birth- 
day cake with its 14 candles, graced the center of the table, 
the cake being white decorated with red hearts and red candles. 
Three kinds of small cakes and wafers (cakes red heart shape) 
a plate of each, at either end of the table, made up that part of 
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the refreshments. Cocoa in small cups and ice cream in heart 
shaped molds. Confectionery in the predominating colors and 
shape was also on the table. Sandwiches cut with a heart 
shaped cutter would also be appropriate. 

The table decorations consisted of red carnations, ferns 
and smilax, and were added to by the souvenirs which were 
laid at the left of each plate. These were prepared by our 
family artist for the occasion, and were red, heart shaped 
affairs with gold border, in the center a small sketch in oil, 
and bearing a line of poetry, and each one numbered. These 
were connected by ribbon (running to the center of the table) 
to buttonhole bouquets, carnations and smilax, which with 
ferns formed the flat centerpiece. At the ends as many as were 
convenient were arranged around the end dishes. 

Much merriment was created by some reading the line on 
their souvenirs. Upon leaving the table each adjusted the rib- 
bon about their neck, which brought the bouquet at its proper 
place "also the heart." After returning to the parlors the 
guests were requested to read the line which they had been 
wondering the meaning of, and by beginning with No. I and 
reading in rotation a well known poem was completed. As 
you will see, this part of the entertainment with the character 
representations goes far toward an evening's entertainment. 
Young people consider a party incomplete without a prize win- 
ning contest of some sort. The one I will describe was 
adopted. 

Pencils and slips of paper were distributed, each bearing the 
name of a book or song, and numbered ; then pieces of drawing 
paper were handed around, the first slips being collected, each 
person was requested to make a drawing, representing the 
book or song, and putting their number on it. These were 
gathered and pinned up for exhibition. The best drawing 
wins a prize. Then the person that, inspecting the drawings 
can give the most names correctly of the books or songs they 
represent (more paper being passed for this purpose) receives 
a prize. This would not do for any younger people than 14, 
but would be found interesting for grown persons, I should 
think. 

The remainder of the evening was filled in by music, singing 
and games of the guests' own choosing, which they seemed 
to be eager to supply. 

When the time of departure came, all wished they might 
enjoy it "all over again." 

Mrs. E. R. Austin. Cleveland. 



VALENTINE ENTERTAINMENT. 



Two dozen couples make a very goodly company of young 
folks for a pleasant little evening; therefore, send out invita- 
tions to that number. The cards of invitation might have 
on them, either in Indian ink or water-colors, an arrow* 
pierced heart, a whole heart or a broken one; even a cluster 
of them, like fishes on a string, according to the pleasure of 
the hostess. Have the twelve young ladies invited, and select 
for each a role that they will personate; for instance, we 
will say that these twelve characters to be represented are: 



I. 


Queen of Hearts. 


7- 


Poster Girl. 


2. 


Gypsy. 


8. 


Widow. 


3- 


Nun. 


9- 


Old Maid. 


4- 


Bicycle Girl. 


io. 


Trained Nurse. 


5- 


Summer Girl. 


ii. 


Columbia. 


6. 


Colonial Girl. 


12. 


Valentine. 



Number twelve can be either a sentimental or a comic 
character. If the latter, a good deal of amusement may be 
derived by getting a younger brother or some mischievous 
"boy to represent this character. Have the young ladies gather 
at the home of the hostess somewhat earlier than the men 
present themselves, and when the latter have assembled in the 
parlors pass a tray around to them containing a dozen cards, 
on each of which is written a couplet. These couplets are 
suggestive of the roles the young ladies play, and each 
•gentleman may select such a couplet as he sees fit. When 
the cards have all been taken, the young men in rotation read 
aloud the couplet each has chosen, and after the reading of 
the couplet the one representing it is brought into the parlor 
by the hostess and introduced to the reader, who has thus 
chosen her as his valentine. 

Among the pleasant features of the supper a "Valentine 
-cake" may be introduced with good effect. This can be got- 
ten up in two ways ; the first, a nicely iced cake, decorated 
with candy hearts having sentimental mottoes on them. Let 
the cake be divided into twenty-four slices. In the slices 
the young girls draw make a slight slit with the sharp blade 
of a knife, and insert into the opening a slip of cardboard on 
-which is written the name of some young man who is present. 
First a young lady chooses a slice of cake, then the gentleman 
selects one. 

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In those slices the latter draw are such small articles as 
denote the sort of wife Fate has chosen to be each young 
man's partner for life. Thus a silver coin signifies wealth, 
a scrap of silk a fashionable wife, a penny poverty, a tiny 
spoon a good housekeeper, a pen a literary woman, a small 
silver heart a marriage for love, a small brush an artistic wife, 
a tiny mirror a vain woman, a piece of crape a widow, etc. 



VALENTINE SOCIAL. 



Invitations should be sent out for the 14th of February. 
Each guest is requested to bring a valentine, and as they enter 
the room, they should drop them into a basket which should 
be ready to receive them. These can be sent later to some 
poor school or mission to be given out to poor children, who 
otherwise would get none. A small room can be fitted up for 
a studio, and as the guests arrive, they are invited into this 
room to have their pictures taken. 

A committee should be appointed to do this work. This 
can be done by having shadow of the head in profile, thrown 
on a sheet of paper tacked to the wall. The artist then 
sketches it with pencil and cuts it out. After all have arrived 
and have their pictures taken, paper and pencil are passed 
around, and guests are asked to guess the identity of each 
picture. 

The pictures are then given to the owners as keepsakes. A 
nice idea is for the gentlemen to write a valentine verse on 
the portraits of the ladies, or make up some comic poetry. A 
sale of hearts is a cute idea. 

Buy very small hearts with a valentine couplet on, these 
being read aloud, each heart being sold to the person who first 
completed its couplet, for instance, "Tis better to have loved 
and lost," the person finishing it as "than never to have loved 
at all." 

The one guessing the most can be given a small box of heart- 
shaped candies. 

Partners can be chosen for supper, by each lady writing her 
name on a slip of paper, and all being put in a hat, each gentle- 
man taking to supper the one whose name he draws from the 
hat. 

A pretty souvenir can be given each guest in the form of a 
small heart-shaped valentine. 

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The menu can be suggestive of the day also. It can consist 
of sandwiches cut in heart-shape, tied with red baby ribbony 
bright red apples, cherry ice, lady fingers, kisses and small 
heart-shaped candies. A card on each dish could carry out the 
idea in the following manner. 

Sandwiches — "Heart bread." 

Apples — "Love Apples." 

Cherry Ice — "Frozen heart's blood." 

Lady Fingers — "Love's caresses." 

Kisses — Lover's Sweets." 

Candies — "Lover's Sweet compound." 



DANISH VALENTINE PARTY. 



The "Town Club" was surprised by receiving white cards 
decorated with cherry colored ribbon and Danish Flag invit- 
ing them to a "Danish Valentine Party." The predominating 
colors were cherry color and white, being the Danish National 
colors. Decorations of the house were of cherry color, 
and white hearts and vinter-gjaek or (snowdrops), the first 
Danish flower of the season. The hearts were strung in the 
parlor, reception room and dining room. The archway be- 
tween parlor and reception room was draped with the American 
and Danish Flags. In the center of each room hung four 
large-sized hearts, cherry color and white with a gilt arrow 
thrust through. In the dining room the hearts were strung 
the same, the lamp shade being of cherry color crepe paper. 
The table was decorated with vinter-gjaek ; (I used white for- 
get-me-nots). 

The girls wore short skirts and bodices of cherry colored 
cambric; white flannel blouses with full sleeves. The hair 
worn in two braids crossed and tucked into the front ol 
bodice with a knot of vintersgjaek tucked into each braid 
just where it comes over the shoulders. The boys wore dark 
coats and trousers with white vests. 

At the door I placed a box for Valentines; as each guest 
came, they dropped their Valentine in the box with a name 
written on. First for amusement was "Shadow Pictures," 
guessing each boy and girl. White cards with numbers in 
cherry ink tied with small cherry colored pencils were passed 
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to each. As shadow was thrown, the name was written after 
the number. Prizes were given for the most correct guesses. 
The girls' prize was a cherry colored satin pin cushion in 
shape of heart. The boys' an earthen pig. Then small white 
•cards tied with cherry colored ribbon and vinter-gjaek with 
.a verse written and below were pin pricks. By guessing the 
letters they stood for, they knew who were Valentines for 
the evening. It was great fun. Lots were gjaeket or 
(fooled). 

"Sir Knight, would'st know thy lady's name, 
These pin pricks tell thee whence I came." 

Then all were asked to the dining room, finding the follow- 
ing supper awaiting them served in Danish style : 

Coffee Water 

Bummernickle (Black Rye Bread) .White Bread 

With grated cheese, tied with cherry colored ribbon. 

Bakte Bomner (Baked Beans) Pickles 

Bakte Avola (Baked Apples) Popcorn 

Avele-Skiever (Doughnuts) Head-Cheese 

Souvenir — Three white candy hearts, tied with cherry col- 
ored ribbon, with verses printed on. 

After supper the Monk distributed the Valentines. Music 
and a flashlight picture of the "Town Club" was taken. Then 
all departed with light hearts. 

Eva Wightman, 
2742 Warner Road, Cleveland, O. 



VALENTINE PARTY. 



Hearts should be the predominant elements at a valentine 
-party. The hostess should paste turkey red cotton on paste- 
board and cut from it as many hearts as there are guests. 
They should be pierced near the top, a loop of red baby rib- 
bon tied in each and strung on a gilt dart. One is presented 
to each guest on entering the room, to wear in the button hole 
•or fasten to the dress. A number of different inexpensive val- 
entines are provided. Each is cut in two and the halves put 
in separate envelopes sealed and numbered for boys and girls. 
The two who have the halves of the same valentine are paired 
ior the evening until the refreshments are brought in. The 
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game of "Telegrams" may be played. Each telegram must 
contain the word Cupid or Valentine. "Hunting Hearts" is 
another appropriate game. Tiny sugar hearts are provided 
and hidden in different parts of the room beforehand. Who- 
ever finds the largest number receives a trifling prize. The 
sandwiches are cut in the shape of hearts with a tin heart- 
shaped cutter. Serve ice cream in heart shaped moulds. 



VALENTINE HEART PARTY. 



The invitations should be on white notepaper with perhaps- 
a tiny heart drawn in red ink at the top (Cupid's coat of arms). 
The hostess herself should dress in white, red, or red and 
white in combination. The chief expense would be for flowers, 
but two bunches of carnations will suffice, which, mingled with 
smilax, will make a counter piece for both dining room and 
drawing room table. 

The viands should be all passed from the dining room table,, 
which should be covered with a spotless white cloth. Candle- 
sticks with white candles and red shades should yield their soft 
light, and the spicy fragrance of the carnation centerpiece will 
add to the simple charm. Ribbon streamers from this center- 
piece are an additional feature, but unnecessary, and add to the 
expense. 

Hearts cut from paper should decorate the room, placed 
wherever they will show to advantage; they can be hung on 
picture-frames, windows, and portieres; suspended fro» 
chandeliers, mirrors, bay windows, and arches. 

At the supper table the same decorations should be carried 
out for the menu. Ices and creams may be obtained at the con- 
fectioner's, frozen in heart-shape — the cold heart portrayed ill 
the light colored varieties, and the warm heart in those that 
are colored with cochineal, or a raspberry flavor and color- 
ing. 

Cakes should also be baked in heart-shape, and heart-shaped 
crepe tissue-paper boxes are used in place of bonbon dishes. 

The success of entertaining is to start people entertaining, 
themselves. For the game to be played, which is called the 
game of hearts (though not the popular game of cards), the list 
cards should have at the top the same little red emblem of love- 
The game consists of a list of selected quotations from poems, 
on love, the players to guess from what poets the quotations 
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are chosen. Pieces of paper and pencils should be provided for 
all the guests. The hostess, of course, cannot play, as she 
knows the answers, but takes charge of all the slips of paper 
as they are returned to her. A prize is given to the one who 
guesses all the quotations, or the greatest number. But the 
sequel to the game is perhaps the greatest fun. It is simply a 
slight change in the old game of word and question. But the 
words must be chosen from the names of the noted poets, and 
the question must pertain to love in some shape or manner. 
Each person writes a word, turns down the paper and passes it 
to his left-hand neighbor, who in turn writes the question, 
passing it on likewise. The third person is to write a four-line 
valentine, bringing in the word and answering the question. 
A vote is taken afterward as to the best valentine and a prize 
given. The prizes should be in the shape of a heart, and can 
be simple, a candy box filled, a stick pin, a pincushion or cut 
glass dish ; any of the countless articles bearing that design. 

A Valentine cotillion is a series of amusing figures, each of 
which ends with a promenade. 

Eight young men walk to the middle of the room. A sheet is 
then thrown over their heads, and they are asked to exchange 
places with each other. Eight young ladies are then requested 
to select their partner for a promenade, by their shoes. 

Reversing the game, eight young ladies are placed behind a 
screen of sheets or shawls, so arranged that only their eyes are 
visible, and the young men are asked to select their partners by 
the eyes. 

Fishing for a partner is another unique figure. 

Eight young ladies are presented with tiny bells tied with a 
ribbon, and a fishing rod with line, at the end of which a bow of 
the same color as their ribbon is pinned. As many young men 
are then asked to kneel in the hall near a staircase. The young 
ladies standing on the stairs dangle the lines over their heads, 
and the young men while on their knees do their best to secure 
a bow. 



VALENTINE FUN. 



A description of a Valentine entertainment given last year 
on the 14th of February will be welcomed by those who desire 
-novel and original ideas. 

We were received in a room decorated with wreaths of green, 
hung in festoons caught up at regular intervals by ribbon 
streamers. From the center of each wreath hung hearts of 
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parchment paper, tinted in blue and lettered in gold, each bear- 
ing a number and a fate or fortune. 

Suspended from a portiere rod between the hall and recep- 
tion room were three hearts formed of heavy wire and carefully 
entwined with evergreen. Above each one was a jingle. The 
first said: 

Blow your bubble right through here 
And you'll be married before another year. 
Above the second: 

To be engaged this very week 
Number two is the one to take. 
And the third had: 

A sad, an awful fate awaits the one who seeks me, 
For he or she will ever a spinster or bachelor be. 

On a small table near by was an immense bowl filled with 
sparkling soap-suds, and also clay pipes decorated with little 
blue hearts. 

We first threw the bubbles off the pipes and then tried to 
blow them through the hearts with pretty little fans which 
were presented to us; none of us found this easy to do, but 
it was lots of fun, even if after all our efforts we saw our 
bubble float through number three instead of one or two, where 
we meant it to do. 

After this came a still merrier game. A low scrap basket 
was placed in the center of the room, and the company arranged 
into opposing parties, forming two half circles around the bas- 
ket. Two differently colored cardboard hearts were given the 
sides, and equally dealt to each one. We were then requested 
to try to throw them in the basket, and all endeavored to do 
so, but found they had a tantalizing way of landing on the 
floor. 

When we had exhausted our cards those in the basket were 
•counted, and the side having the most of its own color won the 
game. 

After this a small blackboard was placed on an easel at one 
end of the room, and we were each in turn blindfolded, handed 
a piece of chalk with which to draw an outline of a heart, and 
to write our name in the center ; the one doing the best to have 
a prize of a large candy heart. 

The partners for supper were chosen in a novel manner, the 
men being numbered and the name of the girls written on 
slips of paper, rolled in clay in little pellets, then dropped into a 
"bowl of water ; the one to rise first belonged to the young man 
numbered one, and so on until each had his Valentine. 
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A "Good Luck" supper was served in an adjoining room. 
Directly over the table, suspended from the chandelier, hung a 
floral horse-shoe. In the center of the table and at each end 
were fairy lamps surrounded by floral horse-shoes. The guest- 
cards were square envelopes, at one side a painted horse-shoe, 
and below, "When Good Luck knocks at the door let him in 
and keep him there." The souvenirs, clover-leaf stick pins, 
and everything possible connected with the supper bore a sym- 
bol of good luck, the bonbons, cakes, and sandwiches taking 
the forms of either a cloverleaf or a horse-shoe. 

On opening the envelopes, we found an amusing valentine 
illustrated by a pen-and-ink sketch, showing the artistic skill 
of one of the members of the family. 

After supper a tray, containing as many numbers as there 
were guests, was passed, and we each took a heart with a cor- 
responding number from the decorations on the wall and read 
aloud the fortune found there. These were very clever, and 
some surprisingly appropriate. 



VARIETY OF LITTLE MISSES. 



1. What Miss causes in turn amusements and quarrels? 
'(Mischief). 

2. What Miss is distrustful of human nature? (Miss-an- 
thrope). 

3. What Miss undervalues her opportunities? (Mis-appre- 
ciate). 

4. What Miss is not always honest? (Mis-appropriate). 

5. What Miss is provoking and a blunderer? (Mis-take). 

6. What Miss can destroy the peace of home, school and 
nation? (Mis-rule). 

7. What Miss is responsible for gross errors? (Mis-do- 
ing). 

8. What Miss wastes time and money? (Mis-spent). 

9. What Miss caused her mother sorrow? (Mis-conduct). 

10. What Miss proves an uncertain correspondent? (Mis- 
direct). 

11. What Miss should the traveler shun? (Mis-guide). 

12. What Miss is unhappy? (Mis- fortune). 

13. What Miss is distinguished as uncivil and ill bred? 
(Mis-behave). 

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14- What Miss gives unreliable information? (Mis-call). 

15. What Miss meets with ill-luck and delay? Mis-adven 
ture). 

16. What Miss is untruthful? (Mis-represent). 

Jessie G. Brown, Berea, O. 



VEGETABLE PARTY. 



First of all, from heavy water color paper was cut twenty- 
five vegetable shapes. The outlines were found in the illus- 
trations of a seedsman's catalogue. There was an onion, a 
beet, a cabbage, a turnip, a potato, and so on. Each of these 
was tinted appropriately to represent the vegetable intended.. 
The coloring was upon one side only, the reverse side being; 
reserved for the invitation, which read as follows : 

My Dear Mrs. Linscott. — I hope you can join us in a vege- 
table party on June the Eighth at eight o'clock. If you can 
come, won't you bring a vegetable bouquet, a bouquet made en- 
tirely of garden greens, for a contest? Please make it charm- 
ing as your artistic talent is sure to suggest. Very cordially 
yours, , Olive Welsh. 

Of course, as this little note suggests, the first number on the 
program of the vegetable evening was a contest in bouquets. 

Each man and girl came bringing one to enter the lists and 
compete for a prize, to be awarded the prettiest and most ar- 
tistic. 

Until one had seen those five and twenty bouquets lying side 
by side upon the table one could not have realized how effective 
in color masses and grouping a handful of every-day garden 
stuff could be made. 

The hostess appointed three of her aids, who did not enter 
the contest, to act as judges. 

The young fellow who won the first prize for men received a 
unique scarf-pin with gold top, representing a carrot. The 
girl's first prize was an exquisite salad dish in red china mod- 
eled exactly upon a ripe red tomato. A set of children's gar- 
dening tools as a booby prize created much merriment. 

The moment after awards in the first contest had been made, 
another trial of skill began. 

A slip of paper entitled "Vegetables in Disguise" was 
passed to each guest, and twenty-five minutes allowed for 
puzzling out the answers. 

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A pronoun preceded and followed by prepositions ? Onion. 

A painful projection? Corn. 

Hard to get out of? Maize (maze). 

These vegetables should see a great deal, and why? Potatoes. 
They have so many eyes. 

A basement and a question? Celery (cellar- why). 

Every good Chinaman has my first. My second is to over- 
load. Cucumber (queue-cumber). Was? Bean (been). 

A bivalve and a vegetable growth? Oyster plant. 

Normal, and a very small piece? Parsnip. A small waste? 
Leek (leak). 

A letter? Pea (p). 

A boy, a letter, and a part of the body? Tomato (Tom-a- 
toe). 

Yielding water, and connections? Pumpkin. To crush? 
Squash. 

A purple part of the year, and sick? Lentil (Lent-ill). 

A tour on your wheel, and years? Spinach (spin-age). Hot 
stuff ? Pepper. 

An English dignity, and a platter? Radish (R. A. dish). 

A hen ? Egg plant. Tramps ? Beets. 

The supper, as one would expect of a vegetable party re- 
freshment, consisted of vegetarian dishes only. 

For the first course, a delicious tomato bouillon served in 
dainty cups. 

This was followed by a piquant salad consisting of apples, 
celery, and nuts, with mayonnaise dressing. 

Ices for the last course were modelled in the shape of huck- 
sters' baskets teeming with most realistic-looking vegetables. 



WHICH IS YOUR AGE? 



What is the best age for a girl or boy? Espionage. 

To what age will people arrive if they live long enough? 
Dotage. 

To what age do most women look forward with anxiety? 
Marriage. 

What age has the soldier often to find? Courage. 

What age is required on the high seas ? Tonnage. 

What age are we forbidden to worship? Image. 

What age is not less or more? Average. 
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What is the age people are stuck on? Mucilage. 
What age is both profane and destructive ? Damage. 
At what age are vessels to ride safe? Anchorage. 
What age is necessary to the clergyman? Parsonage. 
What age is one of communication? Postage. 
What age is most important to travelers by rail ? Mileage. 
What is the age now popular for charity? Coinage. 
What age is shared by the doctor, and the thief? Pillage. 
What age do we all wish for? Homage. 
What age is slavery? Hostage. 

What age most enjoyed at the morning meal ? Beverage. 
What the most indigestible age? Sausage. 



WEDDING OF THE OPERAS. 



Each guest was given a double card or booklet with 
pencil attached, the cover representing a miniature sheet of 
music. Upon one page was a list of numbered questions, 
the answers to be written upon the opposite page, sug- 
gested by selections from well-known operas and oper- 
ettas played upon the piano or other instrument. The 
names of the operas answered the questions. 

The following was the program : 

i. Who were the bride and groom? 

2. What was the bride called — from the ceircumstances of 
her wedding? 

3. At what sort of party did they meet? 

4. He went as a minstrel. What was he called? 

5. She went as an Austrian peasant. What was she 
called? 

6. At the wedding what Spanish girl was maid of honor? 

7. What noted Swiss was best man? 

8. What two ladies (friends of Donizetti's) were brides- 
maids? 

9. What four Germans were the ushers? 

10. What mythological personage presided over the music ? 

11. Who sang at the ceremony ? 

12. What noted person from Japan was present? 

13. What noted bells rung in honor of the wedding? 

14. What ship did they take for their wedding trip ? 

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15- When on the voyage who captured them? 

16. What virtue sustained them in capitivity? 

17. What gentleman of dark complexion rescued them? 

18. What historical people entertained them in France? 

19. In Northeast Italy what grand affair did they 
attend? 

20. Who showed them the sights of Venice 

And the music gave answer as follows : 

1. Romeo and Juliet. 

2. The Runaway girl. 

3. Masked Ball. 

4. Trovatore. 

5. The Bohemian Girl. 

6. Carmen. 

7. William Tell. 

8. Lucia di Lammermoor and Linda di Chamouni. 

9. Loghengrin, Faust, Tannhaeuser and Siegfried. 

10. Orpheus. 

11. The Meistersinger. 

12. The Mikado. 

13. The Chimes of Normandy. 

14. H. M. S. Pinafore. 

15. The Pirates of Penzance. 

16. Patience. 

17. Othello. 

18. The Huguenots. 

19. The Carnival of Venice. 

20. The Gondoliers. 



WHEEL PARTY. 



BY MASSACHUSETTS Y S. 

To open the season give a reception to the members and 
their friends. If invitations are desired, they may be cut 
wheel shape, with the Y monogram on the hub, or the programs 
could be wheel shape. 

PROGRAM. 

1. The Meet. (A social, distributing copies of either or 
both the enclosed "Wheel Tests.") 

2. The Start. (Instrumental Music.) 

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3. Scenery. (Extracts from Miss Willard's "A Wheel 
Within a Wheel," or a temperance recitation, also a temper- 
ance solo or quartette.) 

4. Dismount and Rest. (Refreshments cut wheel-shape 
and lemonade.) 

5. Advice to Cyclists. (Reason why bicycle folk should 
be total abstainers. Urgent invitation to join "Y.") 

6. Award of Prizes. (To one getting most answers cor- 
rect, a miniature bicycle. To one guessing the least, an oil can 
to oil up the rusty wheels of memory.) 

7. The Finish. (Good night song.) 

The elements of Miss Bicycle. 

1. An equine appurtenance, (saddle). 

2. Part of an organ, (pedals). 

3. Necessities of a modern dinner, (forks). 

4. Little Bostons, (hubs). 

5. A chair and a military station, (seat post). 

6. Eastern head-dresser, (tire). 

7. Margins, (rims). 

8. Sons of Celestial Land, (washers, Chinamen). 

9. Parts of a ladder, (spokes). 

10. To compose as laws, (frame). 

11. Part of a ship's rigging, (wheel). 

12. A mark of punctuation, (brackets). 

13. Fanatics, (cranks). 

14. A symbol of bondage, (chain). 

15. An obsolete name of organs of hearing, (lugs). 

16. Food for a guillotine, (head). 

17. A symbol of royalty, (crown). 

18. A coarse fern, (brake). 

19. The traveler's friend, (bag). 

20. Miss Willard's special horror, (bar). 

21. Part of the heart, (valve). 

22. A slippery customer, (oiler). 

23. An animal in pain, (monkey wrench). 

1. There's one bears the name of the land we love, 
{America). 

2. And one that's the gem of the ocean, (Columbia). 

3. One especially suited to the people who rove, (Ramb- 
ler). 

4. And one claims a subject's devotion, (Monarch). 

5. There's one brings a gloom on the face of the earth, 
{Eclipse). 

6. One wears laurel for earnest endeavor, (Victor). 

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7. One bearing the rank of a dame of high birth, 
(Duchess). 

8. One dying in strife lives forever, (Gladiator). 

9. One named for the road on which all cyclers ride, 
(Overland). 

10. One a sportsman the birds will not spare, (Fowler). 

11. In fighting for one many heroes have died, (Liberty). 

12. One shows how birds fly through the air, (Fleetwing). 

13. Finds forty-five units in one mighty whole, (Union). 

14. One the state of an Empress describes, (Imperial). 

15. One destroyed, from its ashes will rise as of old, 
(Phenix). 

16. On your silver another's described, (Sterling). 

17. One the author of tales of love and of war, (Waverly). 

18. Another a man who loved tea, (Johnson). 

19. A messenger brings weighty news from afar, (Envoy). 

20. One the land of the East fair to see, (Orient). 

21. Commanding a legion of Rome there is one, (Tribune). 

22. One fearless, courageous and brave, (Dauntless). 

23. The earliest form of our own silver moon, (Crescent). 

24. And the last without peer, that we have, (Peerless). 



WHITE RIBBON SOCIAL. 



Invitations should read as follows : 

Yourself and friends are cordially invited to attend a 

White Ribbon Social 

given by the Y. W. C. T. U. at the home of the 

President, Miss Blank, 

Monday evening, September 10, 19 — 

Have a small white ribbon bow tied on the corner of the 
card. Of course all Y. girls and boys should wear their white 
ribbons. All who serve on the reception committee should 
wear a large white ribbon rosette. Also have a white ribbon 
quartet for the musical part of the program, and have each one 
wear large white ribbon bow on left breast. Have plenty or 
white flowers for decoration, also use anything white that can 
be used in any way to help decorate. Have large bowl or 
white dish in center of dining table with small white baby 
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ribbon hanging over the edges, one for each guest you ex- 
pect. Tie to the end of ribbon in dish instructions on small 
slip of paper what each one is to do. Each guest is to pull 
out a slip and see what they are to do, and then proceed to 
do it at once. Cover the top of the dish neatly with white 
tissue paper. Wafers can be served tied with narrow white 
ribbon, also coffee or cocoa, or if in summer serve lemonade. 



WHITE RIBBON BOWL SUGGESTIONS. 



1. Act in pantomime a doctor's visit. 

2. Make a dunce cap and put on head of dignified person. 

3. Deliver an oration on George Washington. 

4. Sing, "Mary had a little Lamb," in operatic style. 

5. Draw a correct picture of a cow. 

6. Tell a funny story. 

7. Sing a lullaby to a sofa cushion. 

8. Sing a comic song. 

9. Compose a rhyme with four lines. 

10. Tell a pathetic story. 

11. Make a picture of a man's head on the wall with hands. 

12. Show how a small boy cries when hornets sting him. 

13. Sneeze in five different ways. 

14. Shake hands with ten different persons in ten different 
styles. 

15. Recite "The boy stood on the burning deck," in 
dramatic style. 

16. Laugh ten varieties of laugh. 

17. Imitate the sounds made by two cats fighting. 

18. Show how a man acts when he is lost in Boston. 

19. Smile ten different smiles. 

20. Tip your hat in ten different ways to ten different 
people. 

21. Show how a dude walks. 

22. Auction off an overcoat. 

23. Try to sell a book as if you were a book agent. 

24. Show how a boy writes his first letter. 

25. Name ten things you could do with a million dollars. 

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FIRST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. 



The cotton wedding is celebrated for the first year. Invita- 
tions can be printed on small white squares of cotton cloth. 
The rooms can be prettily decorated with plenty of white 
dotted mull and let all the drapery, curtains and so forth be 
dotted with mull, tied back with ribbons. Of course all the 
presents for this will be cloth of some kind, and does not 
necessarily have to be cotton in every particular. 



SECOND ANNIVERSARY (PAPER). 



The second year is celebrated as a paper wedding. There 
are many ways a house can be decorated with paper. Pretty 
colored paper shades can be made for all the gas jets (or 
lamp chimneys), flower pots can be trimmed with fancy crepe 
paper, butterflies can be made from stiff colored paper, doilies 
can be designed from fancy paper, and paper napkins can be 
used when serving refreshments. Whatever is used for re- 
freshments paper napkins can be placed on each dish under 
the food, drinking glasses can be wrapped around with paper 
and tied with dainty little ribbon. Plenty of paper flowers can 
be used for decorations, and there are many ways that paper 
can be used to help decorate. 



THIRD ANNIVERSARY (LEATHER). 



The third year is observed as a leather wedding. Invitations 
sent out for this anniversary can have a small piece of leather 
enclosed in envelope. A unique idea is to have a leather 
saddle hung in center of room, leather whip and riding gloves. 
As souvenirs small pieces \of leather with the date of wed- 
ding, also date of anniversary stamped or written on and 
tied with white baby ribbon. Small leather calendars can be 
made, also heart shaped leather with small paintings on. Ap- 
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propriate presents can be made of leather purses, handbag, 
shoes, satchels, pocket-books, lunch boxes, traveling cases and 
many little things, and do not forget a leather smoking case 
for the host. 



WOODEN WEDDING (FIFTH ANNIVERSARY). 



The writer, Mrs. Linscott, celebrated this wedding adver- 
sary, and it being a unique and original one, will give it for the 
benefit of others. First, the invitations were printed on paper 
that looked like wood. In fact, it looked so much like it that 
it could hardly be told from wood. Now the decorations: 
First, we took all the inside doors off their hinges and made 
wooden drapery. In one large archway we had twelve wood- 
en plates, each with a painting on, and joined with white rib- 
bon. There were twelve young ladies served on the reception 
committee and the twelve plates were given them as souve- 
nirs. In another archway there was a toothpick curtain which 
attracted much attention. This was made on silk cord with 
the toothpicks tied about two inches apart, crossways, with a 
small loop in the cord. They were draped back and tied with 
a bunch of silk cord. In the small doorways we had clothes- 
pin curtains. Then we had a large wire bell made, and cov- 
ered with shavings and golden rod. There was a large 
canopy of golden rod and shavings over the bell, and at each 
•end of canopy were large boxes covered with golden rod, 
and on each of these were a large palm that reached the 
ceiling. Under this canopy the bride and groom stood to re- 
ceive their guests. 

A large wooden flower stand was placed in the reception 
"hall and it was banked with golden rod and cut flowers, also a 
large palm on top shelf. Several wooden bowls and baskets 
of golden rod and cut flowers were scattered all over the 
house. On the mantels, stands, table, sideboard and piano, 
were large palms and golden rod. The chairs had all 'beei. 
moved out of the house, except in the dining room, where 
they were arranged around the wall. In the center of room 
was the polished table, with doilies, and for a center-piece was 
a large yellow cake with letter "5" in wood. This cake 
stood on a high stem caksstand and around the edge of the 
stand was a row of clothes pins, the kind with a spring, 
and a row of tooth picks sticking all around the edge of the 
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cake. On each opposite corner of table was a little wooden- 
shoe filled with cut flowers, and on each opposite corner was a. 
large apple, one stuck full of toothpicks and one with matches. 
The guests were seated in the dining room for refreshments- 
and as fast as it filled up, the reception committee closed it. 
with a large rope of golden rod across the archway. For re- 
freshments we served ice cream that was made to look like 
wood (caterer said he used a mixture of vanilla, chocolate,, 
bisque and lemon flavors). First, each guest was given a 
wooden plate, with a dish the color of wood, then the fork and 
spoon combined to eat cake and cream. The different kinds 
of cake were made to look like different kinds of wood, such 
as walnut, oak, cherry and so forth. As each guest came in, 
they were met at the door by the serving man, who took them 
to the host and hostess, after which a girl met them and pinned 
a souvenir on each one, after which they were shown to the 
dining room. The souvenirs were large wooden butter moulds, 
on which were printed the year of marriage and the year of 
reception. An orchestra of eight pieces played all through 
the evening, under a canopy of white cloth on the porch, the 
porch being carpeted and curtained like a room. Of course a. 
person does not need to go in so elaborate. 



TIN WEDDING (TENTH ANNIVERSARY). 



1891. 1901- 

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott 
Request the pleasure of your company on Friday evening^ 
November the fifteenth, from eight to eleven o'clock, 10$ 
Southern Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

These wedding invitations can be written or printed, and' 
sent out ten days beforehand, either enclosing a piece of tirr 
or wrapped in tin foil. 

The bride and groom should receive their guests, the bride- 
carrying her bouquet in a tin funnel. The groom can wear a 
small tin horn in his buttonhole with a small bouquet. The 
author intends to celebrate her tin wedding this fall, and 
this is what she intends to have. 
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For refreshments, will serve coffee in tin cups, with tin 
spoons, will use tin plates for refreshments, will pass water 
in a tin pail, using a tin dipper. All refreshments will be 
passed in tin pans, the waiters will use tin coffee pots to refill 
the coffee cups. For a centerpiece for the table, will use a 
large tin cake pan, with an opening in the center, in which a 
small fish horn can be placed. The cake pan and fish horn, 
both being filled with flowers. Shall decorate the rooms with 
tin as far as possible. In one archway shall use tin plates tied 
together with ribbon, a small hole being punched in the plates 
for the purpose. This will form a curtain for one archway. 
In another archway shall use tin cups for the same pur- 
pose. Tin candlesticks can be used, if one is fortunate 
enough to have them. Wire toasters tied with ribbon can be 
hung on the walls for photographs. Small tin spoons tied with 
ribbons, can be given as souvenirs, passed around by the wait- 
ers, in a tin dust pan. 

Potted plants can be set in tin pails, and tin cans can be used 
for bouquets. A tin wash basin can be passed for a finger 
bowl. Tin foil can also be used to decorate with. 



THE FIFTEENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. 



(Crystal). 



For a new way to celebrate a china or crystal wedding — the 
fifteenth anniversary — send out invitations written upon rice 
paper, with some Chinese hieroglyphics across the top of each 
one, and have the invitations read : 

1885. 1900. 

Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Leach 

Request the pleasure of your company 

at their home, Pittsburg, Pa., 

1410 Nixon St., at 

8 o'clock Monday evening 

November tenth, 

Nineteen hundred. 

Please wear a Chinese costume. 

Let the parlor be decorated as a Chinese palace, having at 
one end a large Chinese umbrella suspended from the ceil- 
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ing, under which the host and hostess may receive their guests. 
Have a profusion of China asters and chrysanthemums if it is 
possible to obtain them ; if not, very good imitations of both 
may be made from paper. In different parts of the house 
"have Chinese incense burning. Chinese lanterns may furnish 
the light. 

In the dining room the dishes should be Chinese in design. 
In the centre of the table arrange the flowers and fruits like a 
pagoda. If there are any waiters, have them dressed in 
Chinese costumes. 

For cotillion favors have nodding figures, Chinese slippers, 
tiny parasols, dragons, firecrackers, or boxes of fantastic shapes 
filed with bonbons. 

It would add to the occasion to have the host and hostess 
dress as Emperor and Empress of China, with ambassadors 
and ladies-in-waiting in attendance. 

For a less expensive entertainment the costumes may be 
made of calico in large figures, and the decorations of paper. 
"When it is time for the refreshments let each guest help his 
partner and himself, unless the affair is very formal and there 
are a number of waiters. 

MENU. 

Cha wan mushi (soup) 

Nra ani (baked fish) 

To ri no umani (chicken) 

Suno mo no (chicken salad) 

Goh an (rice) 

Fuku juitsuke (vegetables) 

Nme boshi (plums) 

Kashi (Japanese cakes) 

Mu kan (oranges) 

Ocha (tea) 



SILVER WEDDING (25 YEARS). 



When possible the invitations to, a silver wedding should 
he sent out by one of the married children to the guests 
-whom they wish to assist in the celebration of their parents 
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twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. If the celebration can also 
be arranged at the house of one of the children it will add 
grace to the occasion. The eventful dates, painted by hand 
in silver or gold at the head of the pretty notes of invitation, 
will tell their own story. 

For the decorations for a silver wedding use flowers 
which may be in season, surrounding the mirrors and pic- 
tures as far as possible with a framework of green spangled 
with silver. Cover all the lamps and gas shades with white 
crepe paper flecked here and there with silver, and suspend 
balls covered with silver paper from the chandeliers. 

Let the daughters in the family, and the granddaughters 
if there be any, wear gown's of simplest white, with draper- 
ies of silver tinsel. If there happen to be any grandchildren 
they may be utilized in distributing the favors, which may be 
bouquets of flowers tied with white ribbons. 

The refreshments should be served shortly after the guests 
arrive. A suitable way to announce that supper is served 
will be to have the wedding march played, when the bride 
and groom of the evening may be requested to lead the way 
to the dining room. 

The supper table should be lighted with candelabra with 
white candles, and the snowy table cover be crossed diagon- 
ally with white satin ribbon. Upon a pretty centerpiece of 
silver-spangled tulle may be placed a silver or glass bowl 
containing twenty-five white roses. Dishes of white cake and 
may be scattered everywhere about the table, and the menu 
may consist of chicken and oyster patties, chicken and celery 
salad, white cake of all kinds, and vanilla and lemon ice 
cream served in the shape of hearts. The large cake should 
be decorated in white and silver, and placed upon a silver 
dish in front of the bride of twenty-five years ago, who alone 
candies, and old-fashioned mottoes covered with silver paper 
should be permitted to cut it. 

The guests, as well as the family, should be given ample 
time to partake of the refresments, which, if possible, should 
be served upon silver dishes. 

There is no limit to the presents which may be sent in 
honor of a silver wedding, but no guest need be deterred from 
appearing because of her inability to send a present; her good 
'wishes will please the host and hostess quite as well as an 
elaborate gift. 

Pretty souvenirs of a silver wedding are bookmarks of white 
satin ribbon, upon each one of which is printed in silver the 
name of the guest and the dates of the anniversary he or she 
has been helping to celebrate. 

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GOLDEN WEDDING (50 YEARS). 



Invitations to a golden wedding should be written or printed 
on golden hued cards. Let the bride wear a dress of golden 
hue, if in summer a pretty golden organdie or in winter a wool, 
or if she dislikes such bright colors for her, let her use plenty 
of yellow flowers in her hair and in her dress. 

The groom should also wear yellow flowers. Have the 
home decorated with golden rod if in season, if not, any 
yellow flower can be used; if season for sunflowers, they are 
very pretty for decorations. Let the waiters and those who 
help serve wear yellow dresses or plenty of yellow flowers. 
A large yellow cake could be used for a center piece, banked 
with yellow flowers. Use brass candle sticks with burning can- 
dles. Use plenty of flowers or yellow paper for the gas jets, 
lamp shades and picture frames. Refreshments could consist 
of yellow cake, lemonade, and yellow candy. Pretty souvenirs 
could be a yellow carnation to each guest. 



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INDEX. 



Apple Social 7 

Apple Eating Contest 7 

Apple Paring Contest, 8 

April Fool Evening (New) 8 

Author's Evening 9 

Author's Guessing Game . . 10 

Author's Verbal Game 11 

Amateur Gypsy Fortune Telling 11 

Acting Proverbs (New) 12 

Acting Charades 13 

Advertisement Items 13 

Birthday Party 14 

Birthday Stones 15 

Barn Party 17 

Bishop's Riddle 18 

"B" Social 18 

Box Party 19 

Bean Social 19 

Bean Bags 20 

Bible Evening 20 

Bible Names 21 

Bible Contest 21 

Books of the Bible 22 

Book Social 23 

Clever Portrait Game 24 

Children's Birthday Party (New) 25 

Birthday Flower 26 

Tom Thumb Game 26 

Souvenirs 27 

Birthday Pudding 28 

Valentine Party (New) 28 

Cupid's Darts (New) 29 

Children's Sweet Pea Tea (New) 29 

Chinese Party 31 

Conundrum Tea 31 

Calico Carnival (New) 32 

Cake Walk (Novel Kind) 33 

Cake Sale (New) 34 

Scripture Cake 35 

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Cake That is Good For (New) 35 

Cookie Social 36 

Cooking Sale (New) 37 

Church Fair 37 

Corn Husking Bee 39 

Corn Supper 39 

Cobweb Social 40 

Chestnut Social 40 

Christmas Menu and Table Decorations 41 

Christmas Animal Decorations 42 

Easter Social 43 

Flower Social ., 44 

Flower Poem 45 

Flower Sprouts (New) 46 

Floral Love Story 47 

Feast of Seven Tables 48 

Flags of Nations 50 

Fun for Party 51 

Fourth of July Luncheon (New) 51 

Game of History 52 

Geographical Game 53 

Game of Facts 53 

Golf Luncheon (New) 53 

Golf Guessing Game (New) 55 

George and Martha Tea (New) 55 

Hatchet Party (New) 57 

Hallowe'en Party 58 

1 ' Table Decorations 59 

" Games (New) 60" 

Innocent Party 61 

Initial Characteristics 62 

In-door Lawn Party 63 

Indian Dinner (New) 64 

Inaugeration Day Lunch (New) 65 

Jack-O-Lantern Party 67 

Literary Journey (New) 68 

" Contest " 70 

" Poem of Poems (New) 73 

Musical Evening (New) 74 

" Terms Illustrated 74 

Musicians Buried 75 

Musical Romance (New) 76 

Medical Social " 77 

" Trunk " 78 

Mystical Party 78 

Measuring Party 80 

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Mother Goose Game 80 

New Year's Entertainment (New) 81 

" " Game (New) 82 

The Old Year and the New 83 

" " " Party (New) 83 

" " " Social 84 

Novel Ice Festival (New) 85 

Nose and Goggle Party (New) ; 85 

Nut Social 86 

Nut Conundrums 87 

Noted People 87 

Old Time Spelling Bee 88 

Old Fashioned Dinner 89 

Owl Social \ 89 

Orange Social 90 

" Party 90 

Peanut Party 91 

Pie Party 92 

Ping- Pong Luncheon 92 

Patriotic Party 93 

Pin Party (New) 94 

Pussy Willow Party (New) 96 

Poverty Party 96 

Povverty Soshul 97 

Pink Tea 98 

Penny for Your Thoughts 98 

Peddler's Parade (New) 99 

Pictures of Presidents 100 

President's Nick-names. 101 

Presidental Questions 1 02 

Presidential Poem (New) 102 

Picture Reading (New) 103 

Questions of State 104 

Questions of State Nick-names (New) . . 104 

Questions About White House People 105 

Red, White and Blue Luncheon (New) 106 

St. Patrick's Day Party 108 

St. Patrick's Guessing Contest 109 

Shamrock Luncheon (New) 110 

Snow Drift Party (New) 112 

Story Told by All 113 

Spinster Tea 113 

School Party (Play) 114 

Seven Days in One 117 

Thanksgiving Dinner 118 

Thanksgiving Foot Ball Dinner 1SL0 

Thanksgiving Novel Dinner Party (New) 123 

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Thanksgiving Decoration and Games (New) 124 

Tenia Party 125 

Twentieth Century Party 126 

Tree of Knowledge (New) 128 

Tree Party (New) 127 

Tree Pool (New)* 130 

Tree Puzzle 128 

Tree Game 131 

Transplanting Trees 131 

Telegram Invitations 132 

Telegrams 132 

Ten Virgins (Play) 132 

"T"Test 133 

University Luncheon (New) 134 

Unique Valentine Party 135 

Valentine Entertainment (New) 137 

" Social 138 

" Party , 140 

DanishParty 139 

" Heart Party (New) 141 

" Fun (New) 142 

.Variety of Little Misses 144 

Vegetable Party (New) 145 

Which is your age (New) ~ 146 

Wedding of the Opera's (New) 147 

Wheel Party 148 

White Ribbon Social 150 

White Ribbon Suggestions 151 

Wife of Santa Claus (Xmas Play) 115 

-"Why We Never Married (Play) 120 

First Wedding Anniversary (Cotton) 152 

Second Anniversary (Paper) 152 

Third " (Leather) 152 

Fifth m (Wooden) 153 

Tenth " (Tin) 154 

Fifteenth " (Crystal) 155 

Twenty-fifth " (Silver 156 

Fiftieth " (Golden 158 

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